Thermometry & Calorimetry — JEE Main PYQs & Practice Questions

Thermometry & Calorimetry is a Physics chapter in the JEE Main syllabus. This page brings together 48 previous-year and practice questions on Thermometry & Calorimetry, organised into 4 topics: Temperature Scales, Thermal Expansion, Specific and Latent Heat and Calorimetry. Most questions come with a step-by-step solution you can work through free in PrepWiser.

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Temperature Scales

• Which of the following figure represents the relation between Celsius and Fahrenheit…
• The resistances of the platinum wire of a platinum resistance thermometer at the ice…
• The pressure of the gas in a constant volume gas thermometer is 100 cm of mercury when…
• On a temperature scale 'X', the boiling point of water is 65° X and the freezing point…
• A faulty thermometer reads 5° C in melting ice and 95° C in stream. The correct…
• The graph between two temperature scales P and Q is shown in the figure. Between upper…
• On celcius scale the temperature of body increases by 40° C. The increase in temperature…

Thermal Expansion

• An aluminium and steel rods having same lengths and cross-sections are joined to make…
• The temperature of a metal strip having coefficient of linear expansion α is increased…
• A leak proof cylinder of length 1m, made of a metal which has very low coefficient of…
• A unit scale is to be prepared whose length does not change with temperature and remains…
• A hole is drilled in a metal sheet. At 27° C, the diameter of hole is 5 cm. When the…
• Two different wires having lengths L₁ and L₂, and respective temperature coefficient of…
• Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is…
• At what temperature a gold ring of diameter 6.230 cm be heated so that it can be fitted…
• When the temperature of a metal wire is increased from 0ᵒC to 10ᵒC, its length increases…
• A solid metallic cube having total surface area 24 m² is uniformly heated. If its…
• Each side of a box made of metal sheet in cubic shape is 'a' at room temperature 'T'…
• A bimetallic strip consists of metals A and B. It is mounted rigidly as shown. The metal…
• A bakelite beaker has volume capacity of 500 cc at 30ᵒC. When it is partially filled…
• A non-isotropic solid metal cube has coefficients of linear expansion as : 5 × 10⁻⁵/ᵒC…
• Consider a rectangular sheet of solid material of length l=9 cm and width d=4 cm. The…

Specific and Latent Heat

• A 100 g of iron nail is hit by a 1.5 kg hammer striking at a velocity of 60 ms⁻¹. What…
• The heat extracted out of x gram of water initially at 50°C to cool it down to 0°C is…
• Heat energy of 184 kJ is given to ice of mass 600 g at -12° C. Specific heat of ice is…
• Which of the following best represents the temperature versus heat supplied graph for…
• Two different metal bodies A and B of equal mass are heated at a uniform rate under…
• During the melting of a slab of ice at 273 K at atmospheric pressure :
• A water heater of power 2000 W is used to heat water. The specific heat capacity of…
• A lead bullet penetrates into a solid object and melts. Assuming that 40% of its kinetic…
• A steam engine intakes 50 g of steam at 100°C per minute and cools it down to 20°C. If…
• A block of ice of mass 120 g at temperature 0°C is put in 300 g of water at 25°C. The x…
• A bullet of mass 5 g, travelling with a speed of 210 m/s, strikes a fixed wooden target…
• The height of victoria falls is 63 m. What is the difference in temperature of water at…
• Due to cold weather a 1 m water pipe of cross-sectional area 1 cm² is filled with ice at…

Calorimetry

• A geyser heats water flowing at a rate of 2.0 kg per minute from 30°C to 70°C. If geyser…
• Three containers C₁, C₂ and C₃ have water at different temperatures. The table below…
• A copper block of mass 5.0 kg is heated to a temperature of 500°C and is placed on a…
• A calorimeter of water equivalent 20 g contains 180 g of water at 25ᵒC. ‘m’ grams of…
• The temperature of equal masses of three different liquids x, y and z are 10°C, 20°C and…
• A block of ice at -10° C is slowly heated and converted to steam at 100° C. Which of the…
• 10 kg of ice at -10°C is added to 100 kg of water to lower its temperature from 25 °C…
• An amount of ice of mass 10⁻³ kg and temperature -10° C is transformed to vapour of…
• Water falls from a height of 200 m into a pool. Calculate the rise in temperature of the…
• M grams of steam at 100ᵒC is mixed with 200 g of ice at its melting point in a thermally…
• The specific heat of water = 4200 J kg⁻¹K⁻¹ and the latent heat of ice = 3.4 × 10⁵ J kg…
• A gas based geyser heats water flowing at the rate of 5.0 litres per minute from 27°C to…
• A gun fires a lead bullet of temperature 300 K into a wooden block. The bullet having…

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Frequently asked questions

How many Thermometry & Calorimetry questions are there for JEE Main?

PrepWiser has 48 Thermometry & Calorimetry questions for JEE Main, grouped into 4 topics such as Temperature Scales, Thermal Expansion and Specific and Latent Heat.

Are these Thermometry & Calorimetry questions from previous-year JEE Main papers?

Yes — most are genuine previous-year questions from past JEE Main papers, and the rest are practice questions written to match the JEE Main pattern and difficulty.

Where can I see the answers and solutions to these Thermometry & Calorimetry questions?

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