These days people use steel utensils with copper bottom. This is supposed to be good for uniform heating of food. Explain this effect using the fact that copper is the better conductor.

The stream of a river is flowing with a speed of 2 km/h. A swimmer can swim at a speed of 4 km/h. What should be the direction of the swimmer with respect to the river flow to cross the river perpendicular to river flow ?

At what temperature a gold ring of diameter 6.230cm be heated so that it can be fitted on a wooden bangle of diameter. 6.241cm? Both the diameters have been measured at room temperature (27°C).

(Given : coefficient of linear thermal expansion of gold a_L = 1.4 × 10^-5 K^-1)

A copper block of mass 5.0kg is heated to a temperature of $500°C$  and is placed on a large ice block. What is the maximum amount of ice that can melt?

[Specific heat of copper : 0.39 J g^{-1 0}C^-1 and latent heat of fusion of water : 335 J g^-1]

A solid metallic cube having total surface area 24 m² is uniformly heated. if its temperature is increased by 10⁰C, calculate the increase in volume of the cube.

(Given a = 5.0 × 10^{-4 0}C^-1).

A glass full of hot milk is poured on the table. It begins to cool gradually. Which of the following is correct?

(a) The rate of cooling is constant till milk attains the temperature of the surrounding

(b) The temperature of milk falls off exponentially with time

(c) While cooling, there is a flow of heat from milk to the surrounding as well as from surrounding to the milk but the net flow of heat is from milk to the surrounding and that is why it cools

(d) All three phenomenon, conduction, convection and radiation are responsible for the loss of heat from milk to the surroundings