Tutorial 3
1. In an uncalibrated mercury thermometer, the length of the mercury thread above the bulb, in
the capillary, is 18mm at a temperature of melting ice and 138mm at a temperature of steam.
When placed in hot liquid, the length of the mercury thread is 118mm. Calculate the
temperature of the liquid.
2. At what temperature will the Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature scales record the same
reading?
3. A malaria patient has a body temperature of 39.50C. Convert this temperature to (a)0F (b) K
4. A steel rod increases its length by 5mm when the temperature increases by 100C. What is the
initial length of the rod if the coefficient of linear expansion for steel is 1.1x10 -5 per 0C?
5. How much heat must be added to a 4.0x10-3kg steel ball bearing in order to increase its
temperature by 30K if the specific heat capacity of steel is 4.49x102J/Kg.K? And how much
will the temperature of the ball increase if it were made of gold of specific heat capacity
1.29x102J/Kg.K rather than steel?
6. A 2.0x10-2 kg ice at 00C is dropped into a vacuum bottle originally holding 0.4 kg of water
at 350C. Assuming that any loss or gain of heat by the vacuum bottle is negligible, determine
(a) the heat to melt the ice and (b) the final temperature after thermal equilibrium is attained
7. What is the absolute temperature of boiling water and melting ice?
8. Determine the temperature whose Fahrenheit and Kelvin scales have the same reading.
9. A scientist uses a γ scale for measuring temperature. In this scale water melts at 100γ, and
boils at 1300γ. The scientist measures the temperature at which sodium melts to be 1270γ.
Express this temperature in Kelvin.
10. A glass flask of volume 100cm3 is filled to the brim with liquid whose cubical coefficient of
expansion is 1x10-3 per 0C. The flask and its liquid content are originally at 200C. Determine
the volume of liquid which will overflow upon heating the flask to 500C if the coefficient of
linear expansion of glass is 8x10-6 per 0C?
11. 500cm3 of water is to be heated from room temperature (280C) to 1000C in order to prepare
hot cup of coffee. (a) What is the minimum heat required? (b) How long will it take to heat
the water with a 1000W heating coil which has a heating efficiency of 70%?
12. A 40kg metal slab at temperature 6000C is taken from a furnace and plunged into 300kg of
oil originally at 250C. The final temperature of the oil/slab is 400C. Determine the specific
heat capacity of the metal if that of oil is 2100J/kg. 0C.
13. A 100g ice-block at -200C is dumped into a thermally insulated container of water at 00C.
How much water is frozen if the specific heat of ice is 2302 J/Kg. 0C and latent heat of fusion
is 3.35x105 J/Kg?