मराठी

Why Do the Farmers Fill Their Fields with Water on a Cold Winter Night? - Physics

Advertisements
Advertisements

प्रश्न

Why do the farmers fill their fields with water on a cold winter night?

Advertisements

उत्तर

In the absence of water, if on a cold winter night the atmospheric temperature falls below 0oC,
the water in the fine capillaries of plant will freeze, so the veins will burst due to the increase in
the volume of water on freezing. As a result, plants will die and the crop will be destroyed. In
order to save the crop on such cold nights, farmers fill their fields with water because water has
high specific heat capacity, so it does not allow the temperature in the surrounding area of plants
to fall up to 0oC.

shaalaa.com
  या प्रश्नात किंवा उत्तरात काही त्रुटी आहे का?

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

What do you understand by the following statements:

The specific heat capacity of lead is 130 Jkg-1K-1.


Heat supplied to a solid change it into liquid. What is this change in the phase called?


Differentiate between heat capacity and specific heat capacity.


State three ways to minimize the global warming.


A calorimeter has mass 100 g and specific heat 0.1 kcal/ kg °C. It contains 250 gm of liquid at 30°C having specific heat of 0.4 kcal/kg °C. If we drop a piece of ice of mass 10 g at 0°C, What will be the temperature of the mixture?


104g of water at 30°C is taken in a calorimeter made of copper of mass 42 g. When a certain mass of ice at 0°C is added to it, the final steady temperature of the mixture after the ice has melted, was found to be 10°C. Find the mass of ice added. [Specific heat capacity of water = 4.2 Jg–1°C–1 ; Specific latent heat of fusion of ice = 336 Jg–1; Specific heat capacity of copper = 0.4 Jg–1°C–1] .


Write down the relation between specific heat and heat capacity.

For a gas, `"R"/"C"_"v"=0.4`, where R Is universal gas constant and Cv is the molar specific heat at constant volume. The gas is made up of molecules, which are ______


The ratio of the specific heats `c_"p"/c_"v"=gamma` in terms of degrees of freedom 'n' is given by ______.


Two metals A and B have specific heat capacities in the ratio 2:3. If they are supplied same amount of heat then

If the mass ratio of metal A and metal B is 3:5 then calculate the ratio in which their temperatures rise.


Share
Notifications

Englishहिंदीमराठी


      Forgot password?
Use app×