Question 1

On a linear X temperature scale, water freezes

at -136.0X and boils at 433.0X. On a linear
Y temperature scale, water freezes at -88.00Y
and boils at -22.00Y. A temperature of
47.00Y corresponds to what temperature on
the X scale?
Question 2
At 16C, a brass cube has an edge length of 30
cm. What is the increase in the cube's surface
area when it is heated from 16C to 69C? The
linear expansion coefficient of brass is 19
10-6 /C.
Question 3
An aluminum-alloy rod has a length of 13.792
cm at 15.00C and a length of 13.803 cm at
the boiling point of water. (a) What is the
length of the rod at the freezing point of
water? (b)What is the temperature if the
length of the rod is 13.826 cm?
Question 4
When the temperature of a metal cylinder is
raised from 0.0C to 47.8C, its length
increases by 0.11%. (a) Find the percent
change in density. (b) What is the metal? Use
Table below.

Question 5
An aluminum cup of 130 cm3 capacity is
completely filled with glycerin at 17C. How
much glycerin will spill out of the cup if the
temperature of both the cup and glycerin is
increased to 44C? (The linear expansion
coefficient of aluminum is 23 10-6 1/C. The
coefficient of volume expansion of glycerin is
5.1 10-4 1/C.)
Question 6
A small electric immersion heater is used to
heat 72 g of water for a cup of instant coffee.
The heater is labeled 170 watts (it converts
electrical energy to thermal energy at this
rate). Calculate the time required to bring all
this water from 20C to 100C, ignoring any

heat losses. (The specific heat of water is 4186

J/kgK.)
Question 7
Calculate the minimum amount of energy, in
joules, required to completely melt 223 g of
silver initially at 26.0C. The melting point of
silver is at 962C. Its specific heat capacity is
236 J/kgK and its latent heat of fusion is 105
kJ/kg.
Question 8
How much water remains unfrozen after 62.2
kJ is transferred as heat from 555 g of liquid
water initially at its freezing point? The latent
heat of fusion is 333 kJ/kg.
Question 9
What mass of steam at 100C must be mixed
with 405 g of ice at its melting point, in a
thermally insulated container, to produce
liquid water at 46.0C? The specific heat of
water is 4186 J/kgK. The latent heat of fusion
is 333 kJ/kg, and the latent heat of
vaporization is 2256 kJ/kg.

0.018T2, with T in C and c in cal/gK. Find

the energy required to raise the temperature of
5.0 g of this substance from 3.0C to 17C.
Question 11
Consider a slab of face area A and thickness L.
Suppose that L = 23 cm, A = 88 cm2, and the
material is copper. If the faces of the slab are
maintained at temperatures TH = 171C
and TC = 39C, and a steady state is reached,
find the conduction rate through the slab. The
thermal conductivity of copper is 401 W/mK.
Question 12
A cylindrical copper rod of length 1.6 m and
cross-sectional area 4.5 cm2 is insulated to
prevent heat loss through its surface. The ends
are maintained at a temperature difference of
100 C by having one end in a water-ice
mixture and the other in a mixture of boiling
water and steam. (a) At what rate is energy
conducted along the rod? (b) At what rate
does ice melt at the cold end? The thermal
conductivity of copper is 401 W/mK. The
latent heat of fusion of water is 333 kJ/kg.
Question 13
The figure shows (in cross section) a wall
consisting of four layers, with thermal
conductivities k1 = 0.0559 W/mK,k3 = 0.0432
W/mK and k4 = 0.104 W/mK (k2 is
unknown). The layer thicknesses are L1 = 1.59
cm,L3 = 2.75 cm and L4 = 3.63 cm(L2 is
unknown). The known temperatures are T1 =
30.6 C, T12 = 26.1 C and T4 = -14.2
C. Energy transfer through the wall is steady.
Question 10
The specific heat of a substance varies with
temperature according to c = 0.61 + 0.71T +

What is interface temperature T34?