A uniform half metre rule balances horizontally on a knife edge at 29 cm mark when a weight of 20 gf is suspended from one end.
(i) Draw a diagram of the arrangement
(ii) What is the weight of the half metre rule?
A boy uses a single fixed pulley to lift a load of 50 kgf to some height. Another boy uses a single movable pulley to lift the same load to the same height. Compare the effort applied by them. Give a reason to support your answer.
A pulley system with VR = 4 is used to lift a load of 175 kgf through a vertical height of 15 m. The effort required is 50 kgf in the downward direction.
(g = 10 N kg-1) Calculate
(i) Distance moved by the effort
(ii) Work done by the effort
(iii) M.A. of the pulley system
(iv) Efficiency of the pulley system
Given, VR =4, load = 175 kgf, load arm = 15m, effort = 50 kgf
Applying the formula,L x dL = E x dE
where L = Load, dL = load arm, E = effort and dE = effort arm
(i) Distance moved by the effort, dE = 15 ×4 = 60m
(ii) Work done,W = F × S = 50 × 60 = 3000 J
Calculate the mass of ice needed to cool 150g of water contained in a calorimeter of mass 50 g at 32oC such that the final temperature is 5oC.
Specific heat capacity of calorimeter = 0.4J/goC Specific heat capacity of water = 4.2 J/goC Latent heat capacity of ice = 330 J/g
You have a choice of three metals A,B and C, of specific heat capacities 900 Jkg-1oC-1, 380 Jkg-1oC-1 and 460 Jkg-1oC-1 respectively, to make a calorimeter. Which material will you select? Justify your answer.
A radiation X is focused by a particular device on the bulb of a thermometer and mercury in the thermometer shows a rapid increase. Name the radiation X.