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Newton's Law of Cooling

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Q1MHT CET 2026 · 13 MAY · SHIFT 2Medium

Newton's Law of Cooling

Two hot bodies B1B_1 and B2B_2 have temperature 100∘100^\circC and 80∘80^\circC respectively at t=0t = 0. The temperature of the surroundings is 40∘40^\circC. The ratio of the respective rates of cooling R1R_1 and R2R_2 of these two bodies at t=0t = 0 will be

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Q2MHT CET 2026 · 18 APR · SHIFT 2Medium

Newton's Law of Cooling

A body cools from a temperature 3θ3\theta to 2θ2\theta in 10 minute. The room temperature is θ\theta. The temperature of the body at the end of the next 10 minute is 'xx'. Assuming that Newton's law of cooling is applicable, the value of 'xx' will be

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Q3MHT CET 2026 · 16 APR · SHIFT 2Medium

Newton's Law of Cooling

A bowl filled with very hot water cools from 98∘98^\circC to 86∘86^\circC in 2 minutes when the room temperature is 22∘22^\circC. How long it will take to cool from 75∘75^\circC to 69∘69^\circC?

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Q4MHT CET 2026 · 15 APR · SHIFT 1Medium

Newton's Law of Cooling

An ordinary body cools from 4θ4\theta to 3θ3\theta in 't' minutes. The temperature of the body after next 't' minutes is (Assume Newton's law of cooling and room temperature as θ\theta)

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Q5MHT CET 2026 · 11 APR · SHIFT 2Medium

Newton's Law of Cooling

A body cools in 77 minutes from 60∘60^\circ C to 40∘40^\circ C. What time (in minutes) does it take to cool from 40∘40^\circC to 28∘28^\circ C, if its surrounding temperature is 10∘10^\circC? (Newton's law of cooling holds good)

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Q6MHT CET 2025 · 25 APR · SHIFT 1Medium

Newton's Law of Cooling

A body cools from 80∘C80^\circ\text{C} to 50∘C50^\circ\text{C} in 5 min. In the next time of ' t ' in, the body continues to cool from 50∘C50^\circ\text{C} to 30∘C30^\circ\text{C}. The total time taken by the body to cool from 80∘C80^\circ\text{C} to 30∘C30^\circ\text{C} is [The temperature of the surroundings is 20∘C20^\circ\text{C}.]

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Q7MHT CET 2025 · 21 APR · SHIFT 2Medium

Newton's Law of Cooling

Hot water cools from 80∘C80^\circ\text{C} to 60∘C60^\circ\text{C} in 1 minutes. In cooling from 60∘C60^\circ\text{C} to 50∘C50^\circ\text{C} it will take (room temperature =30∘C= 30^\circ\text{C})

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Q8MHT CET 2025 · 20 APR · SHIFT 2Medium

Newton's Law of Cooling

A metal sphere cools at a rate of 1.5∘C/min1.5^\circ\text{C/min} when its temperature is 80∘C80^\circ\text{C}. When the temperature of the sphere is 40∘C40^\circ\text{C}, its rate of cooling is 0.3∘C/min0.3^\circ\text{C/min}. The temperature of the surrounding (θ0)(\theta_0) is

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Q9MHT CET 2025 · 20 APR · SHIFT 1Medium

Newton's Law of Cooling

A body cools from 60∘C60^\circ\text{C} to 40∘C40^\circ\text{C} in 6 minutes. After next 6 minutes its temperature will be (Temperature of the surroundings is 10∘C10^\circ\text{C})

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Q10JEE Main 2025 · 29 JAN · SHIFT 2Medium

Newton's Law of Cooling

A cup of coffee cools from 90°C to 80°C in t minutes when the room temperature is 20°C. The time taken by the similar cup of coffee to cool from 80°C to 60°C at the same room temperature is:

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Q11JEE Main 2025 · 24 JAN · SHIFT 2Medium

Newton's Law of Cooling

The temperature of a body in air falls from 40∘C40^\circ\text{C} to 24∘C24^\circ\text{C} in 4 minutes. The temperature of the air is 16∘C16^\circ\text{C}. The temperature of the body in the next 4 minutes will be:

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Q12MHT CET 2025 · 26 APR · SHIFT 2Difficult

Newton's Law of Cooling

A calorimeter contains 10 g of water at 20∘C20^\circ\text{C}. The temperature fall to 15∘C15^\circ\text{C} in 10 min. When calorimeter contains 20 g of water at 20∘C20^\circ\text{C}, it takes 15 min. for the temperature to become 15∘C15^\circ\text{C}. The water equivalent at the calorimeter is

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Q13MHT CET 2024 · 16 MAY · SHIFT 1Medium

Newton's Law of Cooling

A bucket full of hot water is kept in a room. If it cools from 75∘C75^\circ\text{C} to 70∘C70^\circ\text{C} in t1t_1 minutes, from 70∘C70^\circ\text{C} to 65∘C65^\circ\text{C} in t2t_2 minutes and 65∘C65^\circ\text{C} to 60∘C60^\circ\text{C} in t3t_3 minutes, then

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Q14MHT CET 2024 · 10 MAY · SHIFT 2Medium

Newton's Law of Cooling

An ordinary body cools from ' 4θ′4\theta' ' to ' 3θ′3\theta' ' in ' t ' minutes. The temperature of that body after next 't' minutes is (Assume Newton's law of cooling and room temperature is θ\theta)

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Answer: (d)

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Q15MHT CET 2024 · 9 MAY · SHIFT 2Medium

Newton's Law of Cooling

The temperature of a liquid falls from 365 K to 359 K in 3 minutes. The time during which temperature of this liquid falls from 342 K to 338 K is [Let the room temperature be 296 K ]

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Q16MHT CET 2023 · 14 MAY · SHIFT 2Medium

Newton's Law of Cooling

A metal rod cools at the rate of 4∘C/min4^\circ\text{C/min} when its temperature is 90∘C90^\circ\text{C} and the rate of 1∘C/m1^\circ\text{C/m}in when its temperature is 30∘C30^\circ\text{C}. The temperature of the surrounding is

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Q17JEE Main 2022 · 27 JUL · SHIFT 1Medium

Newton's Law of Cooling

Read the following statements:

A. When small temperature difference between a liquid and its surrounding is doubled, the rate of loss of heat of the liquid becomes twice.

B. Two bodies PP and QQ having equal surface areas are maintained at temperature 10∘C10^\circ\text{C} and 20∘C20^\circ\text{C}. The thermal radiation emitted in a given time by PP and QQ are in the ratio 1:1.151 : 1.15. C. A Carnot Engine working between 100 K100\text{ K} and 400 K400\text{ K} has an efficiency of 75%75\%.

D. When small temperature difference between a liquid and its surrounding is quadrupled, the rate of loss of heat of the liquid becomes twice.

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Q18MHT CET 2021 · 24 SEP · SHIFT 2Medium

Newton's Law of Cooling

A metal sphere cools at the rate of 1.5∘C/min1.5^\circ\text{C/min} when its temperature is 80∘C80^\circ\text{C}. At what rate will it cool when its temperature falls to 50∘C50^\circ\text{C}. [Temperature of surrounding is 30∘C30^\circ\text{C}]

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Answer: (b)

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Q19NEET 2021Medium

Newton's Law of Cooling

A cup of coffee cools from 90∘^\circ C to 80∘^\circC in t minutes, when the room temperature is 20∘^\circ C. The time taken by a similar cup of coffee to cool from 80∘^\circC to 60∘^\circC at a room temperature same at 20∘^\circC is:

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Q20JEE Main 2019 · 8 APR · SHIFT 1Medium

Newton's Law of Cooling

Two identical beakers A and B contain equal volumes of two different liquids at 60°C each and left to cool down. Liquid in A has density of 8 × 102 kg/m3 and specific heat of 2000 J kg–1 K–1 while liquid in B has density of 103 kg m–3 and specific heat of 4000 J kg–1 K–1. Which of the following best describes their temperature versus time graph schematically? (assume the emissivity of both the beakers to be the same)

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Answer: (b)

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