Practice MCQs For Thermal Physics



This quiz contains practice questions for GCE ‘O’ level topic: Thermal Physics. There are explanations for some of the questions after you submit the quiz. If you could not figure out why a particular option is the answer, feel free to drop a comment below or ask a question in ‘O’ & ‘A’ Level Discussion section of the forum. If you wish to contribute questions to this quiz, please contact us.

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1. What is the definition of heat capacity?
2. Which instrument is most suitable for measuring a rapidly changing temperature?
3. A liquid evaporates rapidly. Why does it cool?
4. A person cannot unscrew the lid of a jar of jam. He finds that the lid can be unscrewed after it has been held under hot, running water for a few seconds.

Why is this?
5. When ice melts to become water, which force must be overcome?
6. How can the sensitivity of a liquid-in-glass thermometer be increased?
7. Fibre is used for home insulation in a cold country, as shown in the diagram.

roofHeat cannot easily escape through the ceiling because the fibre
8. A teacher has a large tank of water in which he wants to set up a convection current.

convection qnWhich of the following arrangements would do this?
9. A gas is enclosed in a container of fixed volume. It gains heat energy from an external source.

What happens to the molecules of the gas?
10. A 200 g mass of copper is heated for 40 s by a heater that produces 3000 J/min.

The specific heat capacity of copper is 400 J/(kg K).

What is the rise in temperature?

 

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