AASHIRWAD CLASSES

Temperature andThermal expansion

NEET-UG - PHYSICS

Time Allowed : 50 mins Maximum Marks : 100

Section A 10) The resistance of a resistance thermometer has values 2.71

and 3.70 ohm at 10o C and 100o C. The temperature at which
1) At which temperature, the centigrade and Fahrenheit scales the resistance is 3.26 ohm is:
are equal? a) 50o C b) 60o C
a) - 40o b) 37o c) 70o C d) 40o C
c) - 80o d) 40o
11) One quality of a thermometer is that its heat capacity should
2) The triple points of carbon dioxide are 216.55 K. Express be small. If P is a mercury thermometer, Q is a resistance
this temperature on the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales: thermometer and R thermocouple type, then:
a) – 66.60o C = – 99.88 o F a) R is the best, Q is worst
b) – 86.60o C = – 150.88 o F b) R is the best, P is worst
c) – 56.60o C = – 69.88 o F c) P is the best, Q is worst
d) – 76.60o C = – 120.88 o F d) P is the best, R is worst
3) According to kinetic theory of gases, at absolute zero of 12) The reading of the centigrade thermometer coincides with that
temperature of Fahrenheit thermometer in a liquid. The temperature of
the liquid is:
a) Molecular motion stops a) 0o C b) 300o C
b) Liquid helium freezes c) - 40 C d) 100o C
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c) Liquid hydrogen freezes
d) Water freezes 13) Oxygen boils at - 183°C. This temperature is approximately:
a) 361o F b) 329o F
4) If boiling point of a liquid is 95 °F, what will be the reading c) 215o F d) - 297o F
at Celsius scale?
a) 63o C b) 65o C 14) A temperature is measured by a constant volume gas ther-
c) 7o C d) 35o C mometer:
5) The common physical property which is to be used as the a) T is independent of the gas used for all pressures
basis for constructing thermometer is b) T is independent of the gas used only at high pressure
c) The ideal gas scale does not agree with absolute scale
a) The variation of the resistance of a wire with temperature
of temperature
b) The variation of the pressure of a gas with temperature
d) T is independent of the gas used only at low pressure
c) The variation of the volume of a liquid with temperature
d) All of these 15) Which of the following graphs represents the relation tF = 9
5
tC + 32?
6) The freezing point on a thermometer is marked as 20o C and
the boiling point as 150o C. A temperature of 60o C on this
thermometer will be read as:
a) 40o C b) 98o C
c) 110 C d) 65o C
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7) Absolute zero (0 K) is that temperature at which:

a) Volume and pressure of a gas becomes zero a)
b) None of these
c) Matter ceases to exist
d) Ice melts and water freezes
8) A Celsius and a fahrenheit thermometer are put in water.
The reading of the fahrenheit thermometer is three times that
of the Celsius thermometer. The reading of the fahrenheit b)
thermometer is :
a) 220o F b) 160o F
c) 270o F d) 80o F
9) A thermometer is graduated in millimetres. It registers - 3
mm when the bulb of the thermometer is in pure melting ice
and 22 mm when the thermometer is in steam at a pressure c)
of 1 atmosphere. The temperature when the thermometer
registers 13 mm is:
a) 13
22 × 100
b) 13
25 × 100
c) 16
25 × 100
d) 16
22 × 100 d)
16) The coefficient of apparent expansion of a liquid in a copper d) The actual cause is still unknown
vessel is C and in a silver vessel is S. The coefficient of
21) A metallic ball has spherical cavity at its centre. If the ball
volume expansion of copper isγC . What is the coefficient
is heated, what happens to the cavity?
of linear expansion of silver?
a) Its volume increases
a) (C + γC + S)
3 b) Its volume may decrease or increase depending upon the
b) (C − γC
3
+ S)
nature of material
c) (C − γC
3
− S)
c) Its volume remains unchanged
d) (C + γC − S) d) Its volume decreases
3
17) A bimetallic strip is made of aluminium and steel (αAl > 22) For a perfect gas ifα , β are the volume and pressure
αSteel ) On heating, the strip will: coefficients of expansion, then:
a) Will bend with aluminium on the concave side a) α = β
b) Will bend with steel on the concave side b) α > β or α < β
c) Get twisted c) α > β
d) Remain straight d) α < β
18) Coefficient of linear expansion of brass and steel rods are 23) When a strip made of iron (α1 ) and copper (α2 > α1 ) is
steelα1 and α2 . Lengths of brass and rods are l1 and l2 re- heated:
spectively. If (l2 - l1 ) is maintained same at all temperatures, i. Its length does not change
which one of the following relations holds good? ii. It gets twisted
iii. It bends with the iron - on concave side
a) α12 l2 = α22 l1
iv. It bends with the iron - on convex side
b) α1 l22 = α2 l12 a) Only iii b) Ii and iii
c) α1 l1 = α2 l2 c) Iv and i d) I and ii
d) α1 l2 = α2 l1
24) Pendulum rods are made of invar because:
19) A copper rod of 88 cm and an aluminium rod of unknown
length have their increase in length independent of an increase a) This alloy is easily available
in temperature. The length of aluminium rod is: (α Cu = 1.7 b) It has negligible coefficient of linear expansion
× 10 - 5 K - 1 and α Al = 2.2 × 10 - 5 K - 1 ) c) It contracts on heating
a) 113.9 cm b) 6.8 cm d) It is cheap
c) 88 cm d) 68 cm
25) A pendulum clock keeps correct time at 20o C. The correc-
20) When a metal rod is heated it expands because: tion to be made during summer per day, where the average
temperature is 40o C, will be: (α = 10 - 5 /o C).
a) The size of its atoms increases
a) 5.64 sec b) 8.64 sec
b) Atmospheric air rushes into it
c) 6.64 sec d) 7.64 sec
c) The distance among its atoms increases