EGSECE AND EUEE (2005-2016) PHYSICS QUESTIONS ON TEMPERATURE AND HEAT

FITAWRARI HABTE MARIAM G/S/SCHOOL 2017 E.C by Alehegn Yideg

1. Cities have higher average evening temperature than the surrounding countryside. This is because con-
crete (common building material for roads, buildings, etc in cities) has a higher specific heat capacity
than soil. This implies that, in the evening:
A. concrete releases the large amount of energy stored in it during the day and cools faster than soil.
B. soil releases the large amount of energy stored in it during the day and cools slower than concrete.
C. concrete releases the large amount of energy stored in it during the day and cools slower than soil.
D. soil absorbs large amount of energy and cools slower than Concrete.

2. Which one of the following systems can absorb some amount of heat without any change in its tempera-
ture?
A. Ice at −10◦ c C. Ice at 0◦ c B. Water 10◦ c D. Water at 0◦ c

3. What is the ratio of the coefficient of linear expansion to coefficient of volume expansion?
A.1:3 B.1:2 C.1:4 D.1:6

4. Coefficient of expansion of water is greater than that of glass. Two identical glass beakers are full of water
at a temperature. of 20◦ C. Beaker-1 is first warmed to a temperature of 35◦ C and then cooled back
to a temperature of 20◦ C. Beaker-2 is first cooled to a temperature of 5◦ C and then warmed back to a
temperature of 20◦ C. What can you conclude about the final sates of the beakers?
A. Both beakers are full. C. Both beakers are not full
B. Only beaker-2 is full. D. Beaker-l contains more volume of water.

5. Metallic water pipes burst during cold seasons. This is because

A. metal contracts easily than water.
B. the outer part of the pipe contracts more than the inner part.
C. ice expands when it melts.
D. water expands when it freezes.

6. If a silver bar having a mass of 525 g absorbs 615 J energy and its temperature rises by 5◦ C, what is the
heat capacity of silver?
A. 246 J/◦ C B. 234 J/◦ C C. 123 J/◦ C D. 0.234 J/◦ C
7. Heat is continuously supplied to a mass of water. The temperature (T) of the
water varies with time (t) as shown in the figure below. What would happen
during the time interval between t1 and t2 ? There is a phase transition from
A. water to ice. B. water to steam. C. steam to water D. steam to ice

8. A square metal plate has an area of 0.09m2 at a temperature of 30◦ C. If the temperature is raised to 60◦ C
the area increases by (The coefficient of linear expansion for metal is 1.1 × 10−5 /◦ C)
A. 0.0000297m2 B. 0.0000594m2 C. 1.0000594m2 D. 1.000188m2

9. How much heat energy is required to change an ice cube of mass m = 720 g from ice at a temperature
of Ti = −10◦ C to water at a temperature of Tf = 15◦ C? (Specific heat capacity of ice is ci = 2.220 ×
103 J/(kg.K), specific heat capacity of water is cw = 4.187 × 103 J/(kg.K), and the latent heat of fusion of
ice is LF = 3.330 × 105 J/K)
A. 3.00 × 105 J B. 2.68 × 105 J C. 2.40 × 104 J D. 6.12 × 104 J

10. A physics student derived the formula for the surface expansion, ∆A, of a rectangular plate in terms of
its linear expansion coefficient, α. Which of the following formulas is possibly derived by the student?
(Assume that ∆T is the change in temperature of the plate and Ao , is its initial area.)
A. ∆A = 2Ao α∆T B. ∆A = 3Ao α∆T C. ∆A = 12 Ao α∆T D. ∆A = Ao α∆T

11. A hot alloy with a specific heat capacity of 200J/kg ◦ C cooled by 50◦ C when added in to water. What
amount of energy is given off by the alloy if its mass is 0.3kg?
A. 3000 J B. 5000 J C. 1000 J D. 1500 J

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12. A certain mass of ice at 0◦ C is placed in a thermos bottle containing 0.1kg of water at 6◦ C. How many
grams of ice will melt if the final temperature of the system is 0◦ C? (The heat of fusion of water is
334, 000J/kg and the specific heat is 4200J/kg ◦ C)
A. 1.7 × 10−3 kg B. 5.0 × 10−3 kg C. 7.5 × 10−3 kg D. 2.0 × 10−3 kg

13. Latent heat of vaporization is the amount of heat required to

A. change phase of a substance from solid to liquid at fixed temperature.
B. change phase of a substance from liquid to gas at fixed temperature.
C. raise the temperature of a 1 kg of a substance by 1 K.
D. raise the temperature of a substance by 1 K.

14. The length of an aluminum rod at a. temperature of 20◦ C is 3m. What will be the ratio of change in
the length of the rod to its original length if its temperature is raised to 120◦ C? The coefficient of linear
expansion of Aluminum is 2.31 × 10−5 K −1 .
A. 23%. B. 3.2% C. 3% D. 0.23%

15. When a bad of 500kg is hanging from a steel wire of length 3m and cross sectional area 0.20cm2 , the wire
stretches beyond its no-load length. If the Young’s modulus for, the wire made of steel is Y = 2 × 1011 P a,
what is the change in length of the wire beyond its no-load length?
A. 3.75 mm B. 2.75 mm C. 1.75 mm D. 0.75 mm

16. A glass flask whose volume is exactly 1000cm3 at 0◦ C is totally filled with 1000cm3 of mercury at this tem-
perature. When flask and mercury are heated to 100◦ C, 15.2cm3 of mercury overflow. If the coefficient of
volume expansion of mercury is 1.82 × 10−4 per Celsius degree, what should be the coefficient of volume
expansion of the glass?
A. 1.52 × 10−4 /◦ C B. 1.82 × 10−4 /◦ C C. 3.00 × 10−5 /◦ C D. 1.00 × 10−5 /◦ C

17. Which one of the following laws best describes the behavior of elastic materials?
A. Gay Lussac’s law B. Hook’s Law C. Newton’s second law D. Newton’s law of gravitation

18. The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of an object of mass m = 1 kg by 1 Kelvin is known
as ................ .
A. Specific heat capacity C. Expansion coefficient
B. Heat capacity D. Internal energy

19. A given weight of gas has a temperature of 27◦ C and volume V . Keeping the pressure constant, the volume
is increased to 3V by varying the temperature. What is the final temperature of the gas?
A. 81◦ C B. 546◦ C C. 627◦ C D. 900◦ C

20. The number of joules of heat energy required to raise the temperature of a body by l K is:
A. Heat capacity. C. Expansion coefficient.
B. Specific heat capacity. D. Calorific value.

21. The definition of Young’s Modulus is given by:

A. force per unit area. C. ratio of stress to strain.
B. ratio of strain to stress. D. force per unit elongation.

22. A metal ball has a diameter that is slightly greater than the diameter of a hole that has been cut into a
metal plate. The coefficient of linear expansion for the metal from which the ball is made is greater than
that for the metal of the plate. Which one of the following procedures can be used to make the ball pass
through the hole?
A. Raise the temperatures of the ball and the plate by the same amount.
B. Heat the ball and cool the plate.
C. Lower the temperatures of the ball and the plate by the same amount.
D. There is no way of passing the ball through the hole.

23. A billiard ball of radius 4cm is falling through a liquid of viscosity 0.985 at a Velocity of 2.5m/s. The drag
force on the ball is
A. 0.591πN B. 0.118πN C. 1.182πN D. 0.059πN

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24. Which one of the following statements is correct?
A. Elastic materials retain their shape after deformation.
B. Plastic materials can recover the original size or shape after being distorted.
C. Plastic materials change their shape by pressure.
D. Elastic materials cannot recover the original size or shape after being distorted.

25. Which of the following refers to the definition of strain as a ratio?

A. Extension to the original length. C. Stress to Young modulus.
B. Force applied to area of the object normal to the force. D. Tensile to applied force.

26. A large (very large in height and cross-section) water tank open at the top has a small hole through its
side near the bottom. To what height should the water be filled, to double the speed of water that flow
out of the hole when it was filled to a height h?
A. h B. 2h C. 3h D. 4h

27. A block of mass 5Kg hanging at the end of spring scale is totally submerged in a beaker of water. The
beaker is large enough to avoid overflow of water. If the density of the block is 2.5 × 103 kg/m3 , then what
is the reading of the scale?
A. 3 kg B. 2 kg C. 1 kg D. 0 kg

28. On an unknown scale X the ice-point temperature is 50◦ X and the steam-point temperature is 200◦ X. If
the temperature is 60◦ C, then what is the reading in ◦ X?
A. 90◦ X B. 140◦ X C. 15◦ X D. 333◦ X

29. Metal A has a coefficient of linear expansion that is three times the coefficient of linear expansion of metal
B. How does their coefficient of areal expansion, γ, compare?
A. γA = 2γB B. γA = 3γB C. γA = 4γB γA = 6γB

30. Three metals are in contact and are in thermal equilibrium. The metals have different specific heat ca-
pacity. What can be concluded about the temperature of the metals?
A. Since they have different specific heat capacity, they must have different temperature at thermal equi-
librium.
B. They must have the same temperature at thermal equilibrium.
C. They must have different internal energy.
D. They must have different kinetic energy.
31. Which of the following figure indicates tensile deformation?
32. A beaker with water resting on a scale weighs 40 N. A block suspended on a hanging spring weighs 20 N.
The spring scale reads 15 N when a block is fully submerged in the water. What is the reading of a scale
on which the beaker with water rests, while the block is submerged in the water after detached from the
hanging spring?
A. 25 N B. 60 N C. 55 N D. 45 N

33. The direction of heat flow is from:

A. high temperature to low temperature C. high density to low density
B. high pressure to low pressure D. a point of higher emissivity to lower one

34. Which of the following statement is correct about elastic behavior of materials?
A. In tensile stress the force is parallel to the cross-sectional area, where as in shear stress, the force is
perpendicular to the area.
B. For sufficiently small stress, stress is proportional to strain.
C. All materials do not necessarily have elastic limit.
D. With plastic materials, the body goes to original dimensions after removal of the force that caused
deformation.

35. A fluid of unknown density filled in a beaker of 250.0cm. The pressure due to the fluid at the base of the
beaker is 2.30P a. The base area of the beaker is 102cm2 . What is the density of the fluid?
A. 9.2 × 103 kg/m3 B. 7.9 × 103 kg/m3 C. 9.2 × 106 kg/m3 D. 9.2 × 101 kg/m3

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36. Which of the following statement is correct?
A. Surface tension pulls the liquid column up until there is sufficient mass of liquid for weight to overcome
the intermolecular forces.
B. Surface tension is proportional to the length along with the surface tension force acts.
C. The angle between the wall of a container and the liquid surface has no role on the capillary action.
D. In a given tube, the capillary action is large for a liquid of larger density.

37. How much heat would be absorbed by 2 g of ice at 0◦ C dropped into water at 0◦ C, to melt it totally to
water at 0◦ C? (Latent heat of melting, L = 340, 000J/Kg)
A. 840 J B. 680 J C. 340 J D. 420 J

38. A material rod that is 4.00m long and 0.50cm2 in cross-sectional area is found to stretch 0.20cm under a
tension of 5000N . The Young’s Modulus for this material is............
A. 1.0 × 104 N/m2 B. 1.0 × 108 N/m2 C. 2.0 × 1011 N/m2 D. 5.0 × 108 N/m2

39. Which of the following is correct?

A. Temperature is a measure of the amount of energy that flows from hot to colder region.
B. Heat is energy that can be transferred from one object to another at equal temperature.
C. Internal energy of a system is independent of its mass or the number of molecules in the system.
D. Temperature is a measure of the average molecular kinetic energy of a gas.

40. An aluminum wire of initial length 2.0m where increased by 2.0cm in its length being on application of a
force of 9.0N . What is the strain energy of the material?
A. 4.5 × 10−2 J B. 9.0 × 10−2 J C. 0.9 J D. 0.18 J

41. Ethanol has a surface tension of 22×10−3 N/m and its density is of 0.789g/cm3 . The radius of the capillary
tube is 15 mm, and the contact angle is 30◦ . Determine the height rise in the column of the capillary tube.
A. 1.6 mm B. 3.2 mm C. 0.16 mm D.0.32 mm

42. The amount of heat energy required to change a substance from a liquid to a gaseous state is known as
A. specific heat capacity. C. latent heat of fusion.
B. quantity of heat. D. latent heat of vaporization.

43. Which one of the following statements describes the unusual behavior of expansion of water?
A. As a temperature of water increases from 0◦ C to 4◦ C, its density increases since one molecule of water
forms one hydrogen bond with another molecule.
B. At 0◦ C, water has larger density and smaller volume than its density and volume at 4◦ C.
C. As a temperature of water increases above 4◦ C, its density increases since water molecules move fur-
ther apart to form a second hydrogen bond with other molecules.
D. The density of water at 0◦ C is less than its density at 4◦ C, since water molecules move further apart
and form a second hydrogen bond with other water molecules.

44. A 40 g of water at 50◦ C is poured into a well-insulated 30 g of copper calorimeter at 20◦ C. The temperature
of water at equilibrium becomes
A. 30◦ C B. 35◦ C C. 47.9◦ C D.52.4◦ C

45. Tensile stress is the

A. ratio of original length to the change in length of the object.
B. perpendicular component of the applied force divided by the cross sectional area of an object.
C. ratio of change in length of an object to the original length.
D. parallel component of the applied force divided by the cross sectional area of an object.

46. A slab of thermal insulator has a cross-section of 0.1m2 a length of 2cm, and thermal conductivity of
0.1J/(m.s◦ C). If the temperature difference between the opposite faces of the insulator is 100◦ C, the
amount of heat flowing through the slab in 24 h is
A. 5.0 × 101 J. B. 7.2 × 104 J. C. 4.32 × 106 J. D.1.2 × 101 J.

47. Which one of the following activities of experiment is NOT necessary to determine the specific latent heat
of vaporization of water?
A. Measuring time B. Measuring mass C. Measuring temperature D. Measuring volume

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48. A bimetallic strip made up of iron and brass bonded together is used in a thermostat. The coefficient of
linear expansions for iron and brass are 1.1 × 10−5 /K and 1.9 × 10−5 /K, respectively. Which of one the
following phenomena occurs when the temperature changes?
A. When the temperature decreases, the brass section of the bimetallic strip contracts slowly than the iron
and the strip bends towards the brass section.
B. When the temperature increases, the iron section of the bimetallic strip expands faster than the brass
and the strip bends towards the brass section.
C. When the temperature increases, the brass section of the bimetallic strip expands faster than the iron
and the strip bends towards the iron section.
D. When the temperature decreases, the iron section of the bimetallic strip contracts faster than the brass
and the strip bends towards the iron section.

49. A metal wire made of coefficient of linear expansion α is heated so that its temperature is changed by ∆T .
If the length of the wire before heating is Lo , which one of the following expressions is correct for the final
length of the wire after heating?
Lo Lo
A. Lo (1 + α∆T ) B. 1−α∆T C. Lo α∆T D. 1+α∆T

50. What amount of heat energy is required to completely melt 200g of ice at 0◦ C? (Take specific latent heat
of melting for ice, Lf = 3.3 × 105 J/kg)
A. Zero B. 1.65 × 103 J C. 1.65 × 103 J D. 6.60 × 104 J

51. When a force F is applied to a wire of length L fixed at one end, the wire extends by x. The tensile strain
of the wire is
A. the length L divided by the extension x. C. the product of the force F and the extension x.
B. the extension x divided by the length L. D. the applied force F divided by the extension.

52. Which one of the following statements describes the difference between heat and temperature?
A. Heat is measured with a thermometer in Kelvin, whereas temperature is measured with a Calorimeter
in Joule.
B. Heat is a transfer of energy due to temperature difference, whereas temperature is a measure of the
average kinetic energy.
C. Heat is an energy that flows spontaneously from colder to hotter object, whereas temperature is the
degree of hotness and coldness.
D. Heat is a measure of the average kinetic energy, whereas temperature is a flow of energy from hotter to
colder object.

53. Two rods, one made of brass and the other made of copper, are joined end to end. The length of the
brass section is 0.2m and the length of the copper section is 0.8m. Each segment has cross-sectional area
0.005m2 . The free end of the brass segment is kept at 100◦ C and the free end of the copper segment is kept
at 0◦ C. If the rate of heat flow is the same through both rods, what is the temperature of a point where the
two segments are joined?(kCu = 385W/m.K, kBr = 109W/m.K)
A. 10.2◦ C B. 50◦ C C. 53◦ C D. 100◦ C