Homework 11
Homework 12
Calculations from HW 11,12, 13,
Calculations from HW 14 & 14a
Homework 14
100

What can one regular calorie be defined as?

DOUBLE POINTS: What is one regular calorie equivalent to in joules?

What Is: The energy that raises the temperature of one gram of H2O from 14.5 C to 15.5 C. 

What Is: 4.184 Joules.

100

Write out the formulas for the following:

1. converting C to K

2. heating or cooling a substance

3. melting or freezing a substance

What Is:

1. add 273 or C + 273 = K

2. Q=mcΔt

3. Q=mLf

100

Specific Heat of Aluminum: 0.215 cal/g K

Melting/Freezing Point of Aluminum: 933 K

You have to heat up a 1.000-gram ingot of aluminum from initial temperature Ti = 853 K to its melting point, 933 K. Calculate the number of calories required for this heat up process.

DOUBLE POINTS: 

Specific Heat of Aluminum: 0.5 cal/g K

Melting/Freezing Point of Aluminum: 273 K

You have 7 grams of ice with an initial temperature of 268 K and you want to raise it to the new temperature of 276 K. 

Calculate the energy budget/total amount of calories.

What Is: 17.2 

What Is: 599

100

You calibrate a set of automobile springs using a 25 kg car battery, attached to a rope that runs over a pulley, as shown in the diagram. You find that the spring is pulled out by 0.19 meters. Compute the spring constant, k, in N/m. Just type in the numeric part of your answer, to the nearest 0.1 N/m. Hint: compute the battery's weight force!

1,289.5

100

Fill in the blanks to these concepts:

1. The ______ is still the same even if the amplitude varies.

2. Greater applied force = greater _____.

3. The spring has ______ restoring force.

4. Further spring is pulled/pushed=______ restoring force.



What Is:

1. Wavelength.

2. Compression.

3. Internal.

4. Stronger.

200

The heat needed to warm one gram of liquid H2O one Kelvin is called a?

DOUBLE POINTS: A Celsius temperature of 10 C is the same as ___K. 

What Is: Calorie.

What Is: 283K.

200

________ measured the mechanical equivalent of heat energy by correlating temperature measurements to ________. 

*double points if you can guess who and what*

What Is: *James Prescott Joule and changes in gravitational potential energy.*

200

Substance A:

Mass-96 grams

Specific Heat-0.336 cal/g K Melting Point-807 K

Initial Temperature: 1000 K

Substance B: 

Mass-74 grams

Specific Heat-0.828 cal/g K Melting Point-900 K

Initial Temperature: 1100 K


When substance A absorbs 100 calories from substance B, substance A heats up by how many calories?

What Is: 3.1

200

Calculate the frequency of wavelength = 379 nm light. 

What Is: 792

200

We know that waves in a material medium, like air or water, do not cause an overall motion in the material. The motion, however, is in...

What Is: The particles of the material vibrating to and fro across their equilibrium position. 

300

The ___________ is a gigantic application of Newton's Second Law along with calculus, trig, and stats.

DOUBLE POINTS: What is Newton's Second Law?

What Is: The Kinetic Theory of Gases.

What Is: F=ma

300

Heat is almost always measured during the process of...

DOUBLE POINTS: Heat transport from the sun to Earth is accomplished primarily by...

What Is: the body gaining/losing energy.

What Is: Electromagnetic Radiation.

300

Substance A:

Mass-51 grams

Specific Heat-0.336 cal/g K Melting Point-807 K

Initial Temperature: 1000 K

Substance B: 

Mass-30 grams

Specific Heat-0.828 cal/g K Melting Point-900 K

Initial Temperature: 1100 K

Calculate the equilibrium temperature.

What Is: 1,059.2 

300

You have a green laser that produces 581x1012 Hz. Calculate the wavelength.

What Is: 516

300

How do you calculate an oscillation period?

What Is:

T= 2pie*square root of L/g

400

The average kinetic energy of molecules of the gas is proportional to this macroscopic measure: 

*double points if you can name which scale*

TRIPLE POINTS: What makes a substance easier (the lower) or harder (the higher) to heat up by one Kelvin is...

What Is: temperature *of gas in the Kelvin scale*

What Is: Specifc Heat of Solid.

400

Heat transported from hot sand at the beach to the soles of your feet is accomplished primarily by...

DOUBLE POINTS: In radiation, thermal energy is transported by...

What Is: Conduction.

What Is: Electromagnetic Fields.

400

You pour out 243g of tea with a specific heat of 1.00 cal/g K and Ti = 347 K. You sweeten it with honey with a mass of mh = 150g at a temperature of Ti = 277 K and with a specific heat of 0.64 cal/g K. 

Calculate the thermal equilibrium.

What Is: 327

400

What is the frequency of a light source that has a wavelength of 807 nm? What is the energy of this wave?

What Is: 371.

400

What is the electromagnetic wave formula?

DOUBLE POINTS: What is the speed of light?

What Is: c=λf

What Is:3x108

500

Liquid water at 273 K (0 C) has to (give up or gain) energy in order to become ice at 273 K.

DOUBLE POINTS: In the equation Q=mcΔt, the c stands for the...

What Is: Give up.

What Is: Specific Heat.

500

Substance A has a mass of 45g and an initial temperature of 1000K. Substance B has a mass of 800g and an initial temperature of 1100K. Which substance cools down and which one warms up?

What Is:

Warms Up-Substance A

Cools Down-Substance B

500

Substance A:

Mass-30 grams

Specific Heat-3 cal/g K 

Initial Temperature: 388 K

Substance B: 

Mass-20 grams

Specific Heat-4.5 cal/g K 

Initial Temperature: 288 K

Calculate the equilibrium temperature.

What Is: 338 K.
500

Calculate the oscillation period.

It takes 0.45 seconds to move from equilibrium to maximum extension. 

Max Compression: -18

Max Extension: 18

x= 10 CM

What Is: 1.8

500

The metric system unit of frequency is the Hertz, abbreviated Hz, which is that same as ___ wave cycle per second.

What Is: 1.00