Question 1
In the HKDSE Physics examination, the temperature reading on a Celsius thermometer is 27 degrees C. What is this temperature on the absolute (Kelvin) scale?
Correct Answer:
300 K
Question 2
An electric kettle supplies 84000 J of heat to 0.50 kg of water, raising its temperature. If the specific heat capacity of water is 4200 J/(kg K), what is the temperature rise (ignoring losses)?
Correct Answer:
40 K
Question 3
Which heat transfer process can occur through a vacuum, such as energy reaching the Earth from the Sun?
Correct Answer:
Radiation
Question 4
When 0.020 kg of ice at 0 degrees C melts completely into water at 0 degrees C, how much heat is absorbed? (Specific latent heat of fusion of ice = 3.34 x 10^5 J/kg)
Correct Answer:
6680 J
Question 5
A fixed mass of ideal gas at constant temperature has its volume halved. According to Boyle's law, what happens to its pressure?
Correct Answer:
It doubles
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