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Questions Related to physics

Why tubes of a boiler are covered with layer of asbestos?

  1. Asbestos is bad conductor of heat

  2. Asbestos is good conductor of heat

  3. Neither A nor B

  4. None


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The tubes are covered with asbestos layer in order to prevent heat less by conduction.

Which of the following materials is used to make clinical thermometer?

  1. Magnet

  2. Mercury

  3. Copper

  4. Titanium


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Mercury because it has low freezing point and high boiling point so it can be used over wide range of temperature.

The thermometric liquid should be a

  1. Bad conductor of heat

  2. Good conductor of heat

  3. It should be of high freezing point

  4. It should be of low boiling point


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The thermometric liquid should be of high MP and BP and good conductor of heat, so it quickly absorbs heat to obtain temperature of object.

A cold steel serving spoon is dipped in hot mushroom soup. It transfers heat to its other end by process of

  1. Convection

  2. Conduction

  3. Radiation

  4. None


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Conduction: Process of transfer of heat by contacting one body with other. In this process, heat transfer takes place without moving the particles.

Metal floors cool more than a wood floor in winters because:
  1. Metal conducts heat more readily than wood

  2. Wood conducts heat more readily than metal

  3. Metal has a higher specific heat than wood

  4. The temperature of the wood is higher than the temperature of the metal

  5. The temperature of the metal is higher than the temperature of the wood


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Metals are good conductor of heat whereas wood does not conduct heat at all.

Thus in winters, metal floors cool more than a wood floor.

Which of the following is a good conductor of heat?

  1. Water and glass

  2. Plastic and copper

  3. Copper and glass

  4. Copper


Correct Option: D

__and__are good conductors of heat

  1. Silver, Copper

  2. Wood,Plastic

  3. Glass,Paper

  4. Pure water,Iron


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
Silver and copper are good conductors of heat.
$\because$ Silver and copper are only metals present there and as we know metals have conductivity of heat and electricity than non-metal and metalloids. So, silver and copper are god conductors of heat.

State the correct statement

  1. When we heat an object, it becomes hot

  2. When we heat an object, it expands in size

  3. When we heat an object, it changes its such such as water boils to form water vapour

  4. All of them are true


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

When we heat an object, it changes its shape, nature and it becomes hot, the temperature increases due to movement of atoms.

Bad conductor of heat is

  1. Copper

  2. Steel

  3. Silver

  4. None


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

All of them, being metals, are good conductors.

The ............ the conductor, the more rapidly does heat transfer takes place.

  1. better

  2. worse

  3. thinner

  4. thicker


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The better the conductor, the more rapidly does heat transfer takes place .


Better conductor means more thermal conductivity; more the thermal conductivity; more rapidly the heat transfer takes place.