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The rate of heat flow through a body is . The term is known as temperature gradient.
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A. Yes
B. No

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Yes

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2. A furnace is made of a red brick wall of thickness 0.5 m and conductivity 0.7 W/mK. For the same heat loss and temperature drop, this can be replaced by a layer of diatomite earth of conductivity 0.14 W/mK and thickness
Options
A. 0.5 m
B. 0.1 m
C. 0.2 m
D. 0.5 m

4. In a vapour compression system, the condition of refrigerant is dry saturated vapour
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A. before entering the compressor
B. after leaving the compressor
C. before entering the condenser
D. after leaving the condenser

5. A reversible engine has ideal thermal efficiency of 30%. When it is used as a refrigerating machine with all other conditions unchanged, the coefficient of performance will be
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A. 1.33
B. 2.33
C. 3.33
D. 4.33

8. A cube at high temperature is immersed in a constant temperature bath. It loses heat from its top, bottom and side surfaces with heat transfer coefficients of h₁, h₂ and h₃ respectively. The average heat transfer coefficient for the cube is
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A. h₁ + h₂ + h₃
B. (h₁h₂h₃)^1/3
C.
D. none of these

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