What is the physical state of water at 12° Celsius?
A. Gas
B. Solid
C. Liquid
D. Ionic
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Which one of the following statement with regarding to expansion of materials due to heating is not correct?
A. As ice melts, it expands uniformly upto 4°C
B. Mercury thermometer works using the principle of expansion due to heating
C. Small gap is kept between two rails to allow for expansion due to heating
D. The length of metallic wire increases when its temperature is increased
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Which of the following devices can be used to detect radiant heat?
A. Liquid thermometer
B. Six's maximum and minimum thermometer
C. Constant volume air thermometer
D. Thermopile
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Lakes freeze in cold countries in winter, leaving the water underneath at
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How much mechanical work must be done to completely melt 1g of ice at 0°C?
A. 4.2 J
B. 80 J
C. 336 J
D. 2268 J
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Which of the following thermodynamic process of constant volume is called?
A. Isobar
B. Symmetric
C. Adiabatic
D. Isochoric
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Thermostat is related to
A. Humidity
B. Temperature
C. Air
D. Clouds
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What is the freezing point of water on Kelvin scale?
A. 173.15 K
B. 373.15 K
C. 473.15 K
D. 273.15 K
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Which electric device is not based on Joule's law of heating?
A. Electric kettle
B. Electric plugs and switches
C. Electric iron
D. Fuse used in an electric circuit
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Match the following.
List-I
List-II
a. Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
1. Give us the concept of temperature
b. First Law of Thermodynamics
2. Defines internal energy
c. Second Law of Thermodynamics
3. Change in internal energy is zero
d. In a complete cycle of changes
4. The efficiency of on engine is always less than unity
A. a-1, b-2, c-3, d-4
B. a-1, b-2, c-4, d-3
C. a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1
D. a-3, b-2, c-4, d-1
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Running a fan in the summer season is given relief because-
A. Our sweat evaporates rapidly from the fan air
B. When the wind blows from the fan, more heat comes out of our body
C. Fan provides cool air
D. The fan increases the conductivity of the air
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Heat from the Sun reaches Earth by the process of
A. conduction
B. convection
C. radiation
D. All of these
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A perfect black body is one whose emissive power is
A. maximum
B. zero
C. unity
D. minimum
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When a bottle is filled with water and it is freezing the bottle breaks down, because
A. Water expands upon freezing
B. Bottle shrinks at freezing point
C. The temperature outside the bottle is higher than inside
D. Water expands on heating
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Consider the figures of a metal ball and a metal ring given below.
The metal ball can just pass through the hole of a metal ring formed out of a strip. When the ball is heated it gets stuck. But when the metal is heated
A. The ball can still pass through the ring as diameter expands on heating
B. The ball gets stuck because of the diameter of the hole decrease on expansion
C. The ball will still pass through because the hole diameter does not change
D. The ball will pass through because there is no change in the ring
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The boiling point of water decreases at higher altitudes is due to
A. low temperature
B. low atmospheric pressure
C. high temperature
D. high atmospheric pressure
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Radiations coming from the sun are mostly in the form of
A. light only
B. light and long wavelength infrared
C. light and short wavelength infrared
D. Both short and long wavelength infrared
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The temperature of a place on one sunny day is 113 in Fahrenheit scale. The Kelvin scale reading of this temperature will be
A. 318 K
B. 45 K
C. 62.8 K
D. 335.8 K
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Water pipes in hilly areas often burst on a cold frosty night because
A. the material of which pipes are made contract due to cold and so breaks
B. water in the pipes freezes and on freezing water expands, so pipes break
C. frost makes the pipes rusty, so they break
D. None of the above
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Transfer of heat by convection can take place in
A. solids and liquids
B. solids and vacuum
C. gases and liquids
D. vacuum and gases
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