{"id":167673,"date":"2024-11-15T21:06:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T21:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=167673"},"modified":"2024-11-15T21:06:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T21:06:28","slug":"how-many-btus-must-be-removed-from-one-pound-of-water-at-200f-for-it-to-end-up-as-ice-at-30f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/15\/how-many-btus-must-be-removed-from-one-pound-of-water-at-200f-for-it-to-end-up-as-ice-at-30f\/","title":{"rendered":"How many Btu&#8217;s must be removed from one pound of water at 200\u00b0F for it to end up as ice at 30\u00b0F"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How many Btu&#8217;s must be removed from one pound of water at 200\u00b0F for it to end up as ice at 30\u00b0F? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a. 144 Btu <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>b. 828 Btu <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>c. 313 Btu <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>d. 526 Btu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-6-color\">The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-2-color\">Correct Answer: c. 313 Btu<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To determine how many Btu&#8217;s must be removed from one pound of water at 200\u00b0F for it to become ice at 30\u00b0F, we need to account for the following steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Cooling the water from 200\u00b0F to 32\u00b0F (its freezing point)<\/strong>: This step involves reducing the temperature of the water without changing its phase.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Freezing the water at 32\u00b0F<\/strong>: This step involves the phase change from liquid water to ice, which releases latent heat.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cooling the ice from 32\u00b0F to 30\u00b0F<\/strong>: Finally, we cool the ice down by 2\u00b0F.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 1: Cooling water from 200\u00b0F to 32\u00b0F<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The specific heat of liquid water is 1 Btu per pound per \u00b0F. To find the heat required to cool the water, we use the formula:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[<br>Q = mc\\Delta T<br>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>where:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>( Q ) is the heat removed in Btu,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>( m ) is the mass in pounds (1 lb),<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>( c ) is the specific heat (1 Btu\/lb\u00b0F for liquid water),<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>( \\Delta T ) is the change in temperature (200\u00b0F &#8211; 32\u00b0F = 168\u00b0F).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>[<br>Q = 1 \\times 1 \\times 168 = 168 \\text{ Btu}<br>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 2: Freezing the water at 32\u00b0F<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The latent heat of fusion for water is approximately 144 Btu per pound. This is the amount of heat that must be removed for water to freeze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[<br>Q = 144 \\text{ Btu}<br>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 3: Cooling the ice from 32\u00b0F to 30\u00b0F<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The specific heat of ice is 0.5 Btu per pound per \u00b0F. The temperature change here is 2\u00b0F (32\u00b0F &#8211; 30\u00b0F). The heat removed is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[<br>Q = 1 \\times 0.5 \\times 2 = 1 \\text{ Btu}<br>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Total Heat Removed<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, we sum the heat removed in each step:<br>[<br>Q_{\\text{total}} = 168 \\text{ Btu (cooling water)} + 144 \\text{ Btu (freezing)} + 1 \\text{ Btu (cooling ice)} = 313 \\text{ Btu}<br>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many Btu&#8217;s must be removed from one pound of water at 200\u00b0F for it to end up as ice at 30\u00b0F? a. 144 Btu b. 828 Btu c. 313 Btu d. 526 Btu The Correct Answer and Explanation is: Correct Answer: c. 313 Btu To determine how many Btu&#8217;s must be removed from one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}