In a nuclear power plant, a 1.0 kg of water at 56.9 °C is converted into 1.0 kg of steam at 154.7 °C. The total heat (in kcal) supplied by the plant is

A 95.0-kg block of ice at 0.00°C breaks off from a glacier, slides along the frictionless ice to the ground from a height of 2.43 m, and then slides along a horizontal surface consisting of gravel and dirt. Find how much of the mass of the ice is melted by the friction with the rough surface, assuming 75.0% of the internal energy generated stays in the ice. Latent heat of fusion (Lf) for water 333,700 J/kg.

An insulated Thermos contains 140 cm³ of hot coffee at 89.0°C. You put in a 14.0 g ice cube at its melting point to cool the coffee. By how many degrees has your coffee cooled once the ice has melted and equilibrium is reached? Treat the coffee as though it were pure water and neglect energy exchanges with the environment. The specific heat of water is 4186 J/kg.K. The latent heat of fusion is 333 kJ/kg. The density of water is 1.00 g/cm³. Number Units

The air temperature above coastal areas is profoundly influenced by the large specific heat of water. One reason is that the energy released when 1 cubic meter of water cools by 1.0°C will raise the temperature of an enormously larger volume of air by 1.0°C. Estimate that volume of air. The specific heat of air is approximately 1.0 kJ/kg ? °C. Take the density of air to be 1.3 kg/m3.

The concrete slab of a basement is 11 m long and 8 m wide, and 0.20 m thick. During the winter, temperatures are nominally 17°C and 10°C at the top and bottom surfaces, respectively. If the concrete has a thermal conductivity of 1.4 W/mK, what is the rate of heat loss through the slab? If the basement is heated by a gas furnace operation at an efficiency of 90%, and natural gas is priced at $0.02. MJ, what is the daily cost of the heat loss. Answer: QLOSS = 4.312 kW, COST = $8.28/day

A heavy pot made of copper has a mass of 2.07 kg (including the lid) and is heated in an oven to a temperature of 155 °C. You pour 0.10 kg of water at 25.6 °C into the pot and quickly close the lid so that no steam can escape. We assume that no heat is lost to the surrounding. For copper, Ccopper 390 J/(kg.K) = For water, Cwater = 4190 J/(kg.K), Lv = 2256 kJ/kg, Lƒ = 333 kJ/kg. What is the final mass of steam in the pot? g

An insulated container is partly filled with oil. The lid of the container is removed, 0.150 kg of water heated to 84.0°C is poured in, and the lid is replaced. As the water and the oil reach equilibrium, the volume of the oil increases by 1.00x105 m³. The density of the oil is 919 kg/m³, its specific heat capacity is 1980 J/(kg-C°), and its coefficient of volume expansion is 726x10-6 (Cº)-¹. What is the temperature when the oil and the water reach equilibrium? Number Units

A closed box is filled with dry ice at a temperature of -81.3 oC, while the outside temperature is 21.5 oC. The box is cubical, measuring 0.392 m on a side, and the thickness of the walls is 4.40 × 10-2 m. In one day, 3.93 × 106 J of heat is conducted through the six walls. Find the thermal conductivity of the material from which the box is made.

A chunk of metal with a mass of 85.0 grams and a specific heat of 759 joules per kilogram·kelvin is heated to 78.9 degrees Celsius and placed in 122 milliliters of water (c = 4186 J/kg·K) at 18.6 degrees Celsius. What is the final temperature of the metal and water? Hint: The heat lost by the metal is gained by the water, so the sum of the heats is zero.