A. Increases
B. Decreases
C. Remains unchanged
D. May increase or decrease; depends on the liquid
Related Mcqs:
- At constant temperature, the thermal conductivities of gases _____________ with rise in pressure?
A. Decrease
B. Increase
C. Remain unchanged
D. May increase or decrease; depends on the pressure - For gases, the thermal conductivity increases with temperature rise. For liquids, with increase in concentration, its thermal conductivity generally ?
A. Decreases
B. Increases
C. Remains unchanged
D. Increases exponentially - The inner wall of a furnace is at a temperature of 700°C. The composite wall is made of two substances, 10 and 20 cm thick with thermal conductivities of 0.05 and 0.1 W.m-1.°C- 1 respectively. The ambient air is at 30°C and the heat transfer co-efficient between the outer surface of wall and air is 20 W.m-2.°C-1. The rate of heat loss from the outer surface in W.m-2is__________________?
A. 165.4
B. 167.5
C. 172.5
D. 175 - A composite wall consists of two plates A and B placed in series normal to the flow of heat. The thermal conductivities are kA and kB and the specific heat capacities are CPA and CPB for plates A and B respectively. Plate B has twice the thickness of plate A. At steady state, the temperature difference across plate A is greater than that across plate B, when_________________?
A. CPA > CPB
B. CPA < CPB
C. kA < 0.5 kB
D. kA >2 kB - The variation of thermal conductivity of a metal with temperature is often correlated using an expression of the form K = K0 + at, where, K is the thermal conductivity and T is the temperature (in °K). The units of ‘a’ in SI system will be________________?
A. W/m.k
B. W/m
C. W/m.k2
D. None, ‘a’ is just a number - Walls of a cubical oven are of thickness l, and they are made of material of thermal conductivity k. The temperature inside the oven is 100°C and the inside heat transfer coefficient is „3k/l’. If the wall temperature on the outside is held at 25°C, what is the inside wall temperature in degree centigrade ?
A. 35.5
B. 43.75
C. 81.25
D. 48.25 - If the thermal conductivity of a wall material is independent of temperature, the steady state temperature distribution in the very large thin plane wall having steady, uniform surface temperature follows _____________ law?
A. Parabolic
B. Hyperbolic
C. Linear
D. Logarithmic - If the thermal conductivity of a wall material is independent of temperature, the steady state temperature distribution in the very large thin plane wall having steady, uniform surface temperature follows ____________ law?
A. Hyperbolic
B. Parabolic
C. Linear
D. Logarithmic - The thermal efficiency of a reversible heat engine operating between two given thermal reservoirs is 0.4. The device is used either as a refrigerator or as a heat pump between the same reservoirs. Then the coefficient of performance as a refrigerator (COP)R and the co-efficient of performance as a heat pump (COP)HP are _______________?
A. (COP)R = (COP)HP = 0.6
B. (COP)R = 2.5; (COP)HP = 1.5
C. (COP)R = 1.5; (COP)HP = 2.5
D. (COP)R = (COP)HP = 2.5 - Among liquids, water has a comparatively high value of thermal conductivity, due to its__________________?
A. Low density
B. High viscosity
C. Partial ionisation
D. Dense structure