SPH 3250: Physics

Study Questions
You may use the following constants
i. Specific Heat capacity of Ice =2100 J/Kg/K
ii. Specific Latent Heat of Fusion of Ice =336000J/Kg
iii. Specific Heat capacity of water = 4200J/Kg/K
iv. Universal gas constant ( R ¿=8.31 J mol−1 K −1.
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v. Boltzman constant ( K)=1.38 ×10

1. Explain any two disadvantages of liquid in glass thermometer (2 mks)

2. A copper block of mass 400 g and temperature 300 0C was immersed in ice of mass 50
g at a temperature of -10 0C. The final temperature at equilibrium was found to be
300C. Calculate the specific heat capacity of copper (5 mks)
3. Explain the working of a thermocouple (4mks)
4. A homemade thermometer showed a mercury column length of 24 cm when the
temperatures were 200C and 74 cm when the temperature was 1200C. Determine the
temperature of a liquid in which the mercury column of the same thermometer was 94
cm (4 mks).
5. State the Zeroth law of thermodynamics (1 mk)
6. Show that for a uniform cube of a material the volume expansivity is 3 times the linear
expansivity (6 mks)
7. A gas contains 1.24 × 1022 atoms , if the pressure of the gas is 1280 mmHg and the
temperature is 270C. find the volume occupied by the gas (4 mks)
8. State any two assumptions of the kinetic theory of gases (2 mks)
9. Show that the average translational kinetic energy of a molecule is directly
proportional to the absolute temperature of the gas (6 mks)
10. A container of volume 11200 cm3 is filled with nitrogen gas at a pressure of 740
mmHg. Calculate the root mean square speed of the molecules (6 mks)