Mud houses are cooler in summer and warmer in winter because
Mud is superconductor of heat
Mud is good conductor of heat
Mud is bad conductor of heat
None of these
An ice box used for keeping eatable cold has a total wall area of $1\;metr{e^2}$ and a wall thickness of $5.0cm$. The thermal conductivity of the ice box is $K = 0.01\;joule/metre{ - ^o}C$. It is filled with ice at ${0^o}C$ along with eatables on a day when the temperature is $30°C$ . The latent heat of fusion of ice is $334 \times {10^3}joules/kg$. The amount of ice melted in one day is ........ $gms$ ($1day = 86,400\;\sec onds$)
Two walls of thicknesses $d_1$ and $d_2$ and thermal conductivities $k_1$ and $k_2$ are in contact. In the steady state, if the temperatures at the outer surfaces are ${T_1}$ and ${T_2}$, the temperature at the common wall is
The ratio of thermal conductivity of two rods of different material is $5 : 4$ . The two rods of same area of cross-section and same thermal resistance will have the lengths in the ratio
The two opposite faces of a cubical piece of iron (thermal conductivity $= 0.2\, CGS$ units) are at ${100^o}C$ and ${0^o}C$ in ice. If the area of a surface is $4c{m^2}$, then the mass of ice melted in $10$ minutes will be ...... $gm$
$Assertion :$ Two thin blankets put together are warmer than a single blanket of double the thickness.
$Reason :$ Thickness increases because of air layer enclosed between the two blankets.