FORM 3 PHYSICS HEAT WORKSHEET 5

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Class & Class No: 3

1. In calibrating an unmarked liquid-in-glass thermometer, it is found that the liquid thread is 3 cm long in melting ice and 21 cm long in boiling water. When it is put into a glass of water, the thread is 9 cm long. What is the temperature of the water? Increase in length by 1 o C = (21 3)/(100 0) = 0.18 cm o C (9 3)/(T 0) = 0.18 T = 33.3 o C
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2. A 1 kW heater takes 138 s to heat a tank of oil from 25 o C to 50 o C. If the mass of oil is 1.8 kg, calculate the heat capacity and the specific heat capacity of the oil. Q = m c (T 2 T 1) 1 000 (138) = 1.8 c (50 25) c = 3 070 J kg 1 o C
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3. Tom carried out an experiment to determine the specific heat capacity of a metal block using an immersion heater and joulemeter. He obtained the following results:

mass of metal block initial joulemeter reading

= 1 kg = 12 345 J final joulemeter reading = 16 123 J = 29 o C

initial temperature of metal block = 25 o C

final temperature of metal block

Determine the specific heat capacity of the metal from the above data. Q = m c (T 2 T 1) (16 123 12 345) = 1 c (29 25) c = 944.5 J kg 1 o C
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4. A student carried out an experiment to find the specific heat capacity of water by heating 200 g of water with an 20 W immersion heater for 300 s. The graph below shows the variation of the temperature of water with time.

T/ C graph B 32 graph A

26 25 30 300 t/s

(a) (i) Calculate the energy supplied by the heater from t = 30 s to 300 s. (ii) Using the result obtained from (a)(i), determine the specific heat capacity of water. (i) E = P t = 20 (270) = 5 400 J (ii) Q = m c (T 2 T 1) 5 400 = 0.2 c (32 26) c = 4 500 J kg 1 o C
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(b) Sketch, on the graph given, the variation of the temperature of water if (i) the mass of water is doubled (labelled as graph A); and (see the figure above) (ii) the power of the heater is doubled (labelled as graph B). (see the figure above)

5. Liquid X at 10 o C is mixed with an equal mass of liquid Y at 50 o C. If the ratio of the heat capacity of X to Y is 1 : 3, find the final temperature of the mixture. Energy lost by liquid Y = Energy gained by the liquid X m c Y (50 T) = m c X (T 10) m (3c) (50 T) = m c (T 10) T = 40 o C

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