PND Science Engineering

Topic 5: Heat and Temperature.

1) A 0.24 kg brass cylinder requires 6 400 J of thermal energy to raise its temperature from
30⁰C to 100⁰C in a few seconds. Calculate the specific heat capacity of brass.
2) A 16 000 J of energy is used to heat a 4 kg mass of copper. The specific heat capacity of
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copper is 400 Jkg K . What is the increase in temperature?

3) A 150 g of water is poured into an electric kettle and the kettle us switched on for a few
minutes. The energy needed to heat the water is 7 500 J and the specific heat capacity of
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water is 4.2  10 Jkg C . Calculate the rise in temperature?
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4) A heater is totally immersed into a huge block of mass of 10 kg with a temperature of 30⁰C.
The heater requires 189 000 J of heat to raise its temperature to 80⁰C. Calculate the specific
heat capacity of the metal.
5) A gas burner is used to heat 0.50 kg if water in a beaker. The temperature rises from 15⁰C to
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60⁰C in 1 minute. Assuming the specific heat capacity of water is 4200 Jkg K , calculate

the amount of energy dissipated.

6) What is the amount of thermal energy required to heat the water for a bath, if it involves
raising the temperature of 60 kg of water by 30 K. (The specific heat capacity of water is

4200 Jkg 1 K 1 .)

7) A heater which supplies heat energy at 1 020 000 J, is completely immersed in a 3 kg block
of ice at 0⁰C. The ice melts completely. Calculate the specific latent heat of fusion of ice.
8) A jet of steam at 100⁰C is directed for a short time on a large block of ice at 0⁰C. Some the
steam condenses to form water and some ice is melted. The condensed steam forms 0.40 kg
of water at 0⁰C. Calculate
a) the heat given out by this mass of steam in changing to water at 100⁰C.
b) the heat given out by this water as it cools to the temperature of the ice.
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(Take specific latent heat of vaporization of water = 2.20  10 Jkg K
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and specific heat
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capacity of water = 4200 Jkg K .)