Practice Problems
Heat Transfer Methods
Directions:
On this worksheet you will investigate properties of
the three heat transfer methods
.
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Question 1
Which method of heat transfer involves actual particles circulating from one region to another?
conduction
convection
radiation
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Question 2
Which heat transfer method can take place without a medium, that is, in a vacuum?
conduction
convection
radiation
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Question 3
Newton's Law of Cooling allows us to calculate the rate at which the temperature difference between a hot object and the ambient room temperature changes with the passage of time. T
diff
= T
o
e
-kt
. At time t = 0, the original temperature difference between a hot solid and the ambient room temperature is 58.4 ºC. If the temperature difference drops to half that value in 17.9 seconds, what is the value of the decay constant, k?
0.0288 per second
0.0559 per second
0.0387 per second
0.0258 per second
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Question 4
At what time will the temperature difference equal 12.3ºC?
40.3 sec
26.9 sec
32.4 sec
60.5 sec
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Question 5
An incandescent black body has a peak wavelength of 634 nm when its temperature is 4574 Kelvin. What would be the temperature of a second blackbody radiator that has a peak wavelength of 412.1 nm?
4796 Kelvin
7037 Kelvin
2973 Kelvin
10150 Kelvin
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Question 6
Compare the rate at which energy is given off by the second black body in Question #5 which has a peak wavelength of 412.1 nm to the first black body which has a peak wavelength of 634 nm.
2.4 : 1
1.1 : 1
1.5 : 1
5.6 : 1
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Question 7
If two other incandescent solids are at the same temperature, but one has a surface area that is 6 times greater, how would the radiant power of the larger black body compare to the rate at which energy is emitted by the smaller black body?
it would be 6 times greater
it would be 1.57 times smaller
it would be 36 times greater
it would be 1296 times greater
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Question 8
One end of a 58.4-cm copper rod (
a
= 385 W/mK) is placed in 100 grams of cold water at a temperature of 3.58 ºC. The other end is placed in the flame of a bunsen burner at a temperature of 908 ºC. If the rod has a radius of 0.6 cm, then what is the initial rate at which heat is conducted along the rod?
93.7 J/sec
22.5 J/sec
17.5 J/sec
67.4 J/sec
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Question 9
If a second copper rod has the same length as the rod in Question #8 but has a radius of 0.126 cm, how would the rate of conductivity be changed?
it would decease by a factor of 0.210
it would decease by a factor of 0.0441
it would increase by a factor of 5
it would increase by a factor of 23
it would not change
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Question 10
If a third copper rod has the same radius as the rod in Question #8, but a length of 80.01 cm, how would the rate of conductivity be changed?
it would be 13.7% as great
it would be 37% as great
it would be 2.7% as great
it would be 63% as great
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Question 11
A 350 watt immersion heater is used to heat a cup of water containing 181 grams of water and a piece of ice. The cup is made of styrofoam which is an insulator and does not give up or receive heat. If it takes 2.86 minutes for the heater to bring the contents of the cup from 0ºC to 65ºC, how much ice was originally present? Here are some constants: c
ice
= 2093 J/kgºC, c
water
=4186 J/kgºC, L
f
= 334 kJ/kg
17.9 grams
28.4 grams
39.9 grams
50.4 grams
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