Temperature and Heat Practice Problems

From: Giancoli Chapter 13, 14, and 15

1. (G13.3) Room temperature is often taken to be 68F; what is this on the Celsius scale?
Answer: 20C

a. The temperature of the filament in a light bulb is about 1800C; what is this on the
Fahrenheit scale? Answer: 3272F

2. (G13.5) The highest and lowest recorded temperature were 136F (in the Libyan desert) and -
129F (in Antarctica). What are these temperatures on the Celsius scale?
Answer: 58C, -89C

3. (G13.8) At what temperature will the Fahrenheit and Centigrade scales yield the same numerical
value? Answer: -40

4. (G13.30) Typical temperatures in the interior of the Earth and Sun are about 4000C and 15 x
106C, respectively. What are these temperatures in Kelvin?
Answer: 4273 K, 15 x 106 K

5. (G13.9) A concrete highway is built of slabs 14 m long at 20C. How wide should the expansion
cracks between the slabs be at 20C to prevent buckling if the range of temperatures is -30C to
+50C? The coefficient of linear expansion for concrete is 12 x 10-6 C-1. Answer: 0.50 cm

6. (G14.1) How much heat is required to raise the temperature of 20.0 kg of water from 15C to 95C?
Answer: 6.7 x 106 J

7. (G14.3) To what temperature will 7700 J of work raise 3.0 kg of water initially at 10.0C?
Answer: 10.6C

8. (G14.8) How many kilocalories of heat are generated when the brakes are used to bring a 1000-kg
car to rest from a speed of 100 km/hr? Answer: 92 kilocalories

9. (G14.9) What is the specific heat of a metal substance if 135 kJ of heat is needed to raise 5.1 kg of
the metal from 20C to 30C? Answer: 2.6 x 103 J/kgC

10. (G14.E11) A major source of heat loss from a house is through the windows. Calculate the rate of
heat flow through a glass window of 2.0 m x 1.5 m that is 3.2 mm thick, if the temperatures of the
inner and outer surfaces are 15.0C and 14.0C, respectively. Answer: 790 W

11. (G14.15) A 1.20 kg head of a hammer has a speed of 8.0 m/s just before it strikes a nail and is
brought to rest. Estimate the temperature rise of a 14-g nail generated by ten such hammer blows
done in quick succession. Assume the nail absorbs all the energy. Answer: 61C

12. (G14.33) How much power is radiated by a tungsten sphere (e = 0.35) of radius 22 cm at a
temperature of 25C? Answer: 95 W

a. If the sphere is enclosed in a room whose walls are kept at -5C, what is the net flow
rate of energy out of the sphere? Answer: 33 W
 Temperature and Heat Practice Problems
From: Giancoli Chapter 13, 14, and 15

13. (G14.56) Estimate the rate at which heat can be conducted from the interior of the body to the
surface. Assume that the thickness of tissue is about 4.0 cm, that the skin is at 34C and the interior
at 37C, and the surface area is 1.5 m2. Answer: 22.5 W

Table 14-3 Latent Heats at 1 atm

Substance Heat of Fusion (J/kg) Heat of Vaporization (J/kg)
Oxygen 0.14 x 105 2.1 x 105
Nitrogen 0.26 x 105 2.00 x 105
Ethyl Alcohol 1.04 x 105 8.5 x 105
Ammonia 0.33 x 105 1.37 x 105
Water 3.33 x 105 22.6 x 105
Lead 0.25 x 105 8.7 x 105
Silver 0.88 x 105 23 x 105
Iron 2.89 x 105 63.4 x 105
Tungsten 1.84 x 105 48 x 105