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Thermometers - class-VII

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The range of clinical thermometer is $\displaystyle 35^{0}$ to $\displaystyle 43^{0}$

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The above statement is true.

The typical range of a sub-lingual thermometer for use in humans is from about $35 °C$ to $42 °C$ or $90 °F$ to $110 °F.$

Among the following what should not be done while or before using a clinical thermometer?

  1. Ensure that before use the mercury level is below $35\ ^0C$.

  2. Wash the thermometer with hot water.

  3. Handle the thermometer with care, as you handle any glass articles.

  4. Don't hold the thermometer by the bulb while reading it.


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

(A) The mercury level should be below $35^{o}C$ or $94^{o}F$ , because minimum reading of a clinical thermometer is $35^{o}C$ hence it must be at lowest level to measure the right temperature .

(B) If we wash thermometer with hot water , mercury will expand due to heat given by hot water and will rise to a higher temperature. If the water is very hot , it may result in the damage of thermometer .Hence it must not be done .
(C) It must be handled with care as being made of glass and mercury inside it is poisonous .
(D) If we hold the bulb by our hand , thermometer will take heat from hand and will show a wrong reading hence we should not hold it by bulb 

The range of clinical thermometer is between:

  1. $45 ^\circ C$ and $52 ^\circ C$

  2. $25 ^\circ C$ and $32 ^\circ C$

  3. $65 ^\circ C$ and $72 ^\circ C$

  4. $35 ^\circ C$ and $42 ^\circ C$


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The range of clinical thermometer is from $35^{o}C$ or $94^{o}F$  to $42^{o}C$ or$108^{o}F$.

Before using the clinical thermometer mercury level should be below:

  1. $ 45 ^\circ C$

  2. $ 35 ^\circ C$

  3. $ 95 ^\circ C$

  4. $ 55 ^\circ C$


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The mercury level should be below $35^{o}C$ or $94^{o}F$, because minimum temperature of human body can not be below $35^{o}C$. Hence, it must be at lowest level to measure the temperature of human body correctly.

__________thermometers include two different metals that are bonded together and expand at different rates as they warm up.

  1. Liquid in glass

  2. Gas

  3. Bimetallic strip

  4. Resistance


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Bimetallic thermometer include two different metals , bonded together . These two metals have different coefficients of thermal expansion , due to this they expand or contract at different rates , when put into a temperature change together .This is the principle of a bimetallic thermometer .

 Water cannot be used as a liquid in a thermometer because it has:

  1. higher freezing point and lower boiling point than other thermometric liquids

  2. lower freezing point and higher boiling point than other thermometric liquids

  3. low specific heat capacity

  4. transparent colour


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Water cannot be used in thermometer because of its higher freezing point and lower boiling point than other liquids .  If water is used in a thermometer , it will start phase change at $0^{o}C$ and $100^{o}C$ and will not measure temperature , out of this range . This range is very small as compared  to other liquids as mercury , having freezing point about $-39^{o}C$ and boiling point $356^{o}C$ .

Our body temperature cannot fall below:

  1. $37 ^\circ C$

  2. $35 ^\circ C$

  3. $40 ^\circ C$

  4. $42 ^\circ C$


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Our body temperature cannot fall below $35^{o}C$ or $95^{o}F$ , because below this temperature body will suffer hypothermia .

The normal temperature of human body is ____________.

  1. $27^oC$

  2. $37^oC$

  3. $47^oC$

  4. $57^oC$


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Normal body temperature varies by person, age, activity, and time of day. The average normal body temperature is generally accepted as $98.6°F (37°C)$.

What does the bulb of a clinical thermometer contain?

  1. Water

  2. Mercury

  3. Iron

  4. Zinc


Correct Option: B
Explanation:
A clinical thermometer is a thermometer used to measure human body temperature. Most old ones use mercury thermometer. It is accurate and sensitive, because it has a narrow place where the mercury level rises very fast.

These thermometers are used in clinics by doctors, so they are also called a doctor's thermometers or medical thermometers. Most of them show both Celsius scale and Fahrenheit temperature scales. The scale runs from 35 degree Celsius to 42 degree Celsius.

Medical thermometers are cleaned before and after each use, with alcohol.

Suppose in a clinical thermometer, the difference between first and second bigger marks is $1^o$ and there are 5 small divisions between them then each small division refers to the difference in scale of:

  1. $0.1^oC$

  2. $0.2^oC$

  3. $0.3^oC$

  4. $0.4^oC$


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Suppose in a clinical thermometer, the difference between first and second bigger marks is 1o and there are 5 small divisions .
the bigger marks read one degree and there are five divisions between them. Then, one small division can read $\dfrac{1}{5} =  0.2 ^oC$ 

What is the limit of temperatures human body can achieve?

  1. $25^oC$ to $42^oC$

  2. $35^oC$ to $42^oC$

  3. $35^oC$ to $62^oC$

  4. $5^oC$ to $42^oC$


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Normal human body temperature, also known as normothermia or euthermia, is the typical temperature range found in humans. The normal human body temperature range is typically stated as $36.5–37.5 °C (97.7–99.5 °F).$
The limit of temperatures human body can achieve is $35^oC $ to $62^oC$

Which of the following methods would reduce the temperature of hot tea

  1. Add more tea at the same temperature

  2. Add water at the same temperature

  3. Add water at temperature lower than the temperature of tea

  4. Add water at temperature higher than the temperature of tea


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

temperature of hot tea add water at temperature lower than the temperature of tea

Water is an  effective coolant,For a coolant a substance has to have a high specific heat capacity, meaning it can absorb a lot of heat. It also has to be nontoxic, or non-poisonous. It also needs to be fairly common, which would mean since it is readily available, the cost should be fairly low

One litre of water at $30^{o}C$ is mixed with one litre of water at $50^{o}C$. The temperature of the mixture will be

  1. 80C

  2. more than 50C but less than 80C

  3. 20C

  4. between 30C and 50C


Correct Option: D
Explanation:
Let the first volume of water be V1. Let the second volume of water be V2. Let the initial temperature of the first volume of water be θ1. Let the initial temperature of the second volume of water be θ2.

Let the energy required to heat a unit volume of water by unit temperature by C.

So, if the final temperature is θfinal, we have

heat gained by the first volume of water

$=V _1×C×(θ _{final}−θ _1)$

and

heat lost by the second volume of water

$=V _2×C×(θ _2−θ _{final}).$

By the law of conservation of energy,

heat lost = heat gained

∴$V _1×C×(θ _{final}−θ _1)=V _2×C×(θ _2−θ _{final})$

∴$V _1θ _{final}−V _1θ _1=V _2θ _2−V _2θ _{final}$

∴$θ _{final}=V _1θ _1+V _2θ _2V _1+V _2$

Substituting the given values,

$θ _{final}=\dfrac{30+50}{2}=40^∘C$.

The answer is option D

Human body temperature is well measured by 

  1. A clinical thermometer

  2. A laboratory thermometer

  3. Thermostat

  4. Both A & B can be used


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
A clinical thermometer is a thermometer used to measure human body temperature. Most old ones use mercury thermometer. It is accurate and sensitive, because it has a narrow place where the mercury level rises very fast.

These thermometers are used in clinics by doctors, so they are also called a doctor's thermometers or medical thermometers. Most of them show both Celsius scale and Fahrenheit temperature scales. The scale runs from 35 degree Celsius to 42 degree Celsius.

Medical thermometers are cleaned before and after each use, with alcohol.

It has a kink which does not allow the mercury level to fall on its own.

A laboratory thermometer is dipped in a beaker containing hot water. As the thermometer is removed the mercury level will

  1. rise

  2. fall

  3. it may rise or fall depending upon how much water is kept inside the beaker

  4. neither rise nor fall


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

A laboratory thermometer is dipped in a beaker containing hot water. As the thermometer is removed the mercury level will fall.

As the temperature of hot water is much higher than the room temperature th level of mercury rises but when it is removed then the thermometer comes down as the temperature of room is less than the temperature of hot water hence level will fall

Choose the correct option

  1. Temperature of a water kept inside a beaker is measured when the laboratory thermometer is held inside the water

  2. Temperature of a water kept inside a beaker is measured when the laboratory thermometer is removed from the water

  3. Temperature of our body is measured when the clinical thermometer is kept inside the mouth

  4. Temperature of our body is measured when the clinical thermometer is removed from the mouth


Correct Option: A,D
Explanation:
A.Temperature of a water kept inside a beaker is measured when the laboratory thermometer is held inside the water.This gives accurately the temperature of water in beaker.
B
Temperature of a water kept inside a beaker is measured when the laboratory thermometer is removed from the water.This method is wrong as thermometer reading will be drop as it removed from the beaker.Hence this will give error in reading.
C
Temperature of our body is measured when the clinical thermometer is kept inside the mouth.In the clinical thermometers the maximum temperature is first allowed to reach then we remove the thermometer and  take the reading.Hence temperature inside mouth gives error in reading 
D
Temperature of our body is measured when the clinical thermometer is removed from the mouth.In the clinical thermometers the maximum temperature is first allowed to reach then we remove the thermometer and  take the reading.Hence this method is correct.

A clinical thermometer can not be used to measure

  1. Room temperature

  2. Human body temperature

  3. Temperature of a boiling water

  4. Temperature of a lake water


Correct Option: C
Explanation:
clinical Thermometer (or doctor's thermometer) is used for measuring a person's temperature. 
The temperature range that is marked on a clinical thermometer is about $35^oC$ to $43^oC$ (or $ 95^oF$ to $109^oF). $
After a clinical thermometer has been used to record a patient's temperature, the mercury is prevented from contracting into the glass bulb by the constriction kink.
Hence cannot be used to measure temperature of boiling water which is about $100^oC$

How should a thermometer be dipped inside beaker containing water

  1. Vertically

  2. Tilted

  3. Any of the above way

  4. None of the above way


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

A thermometer is a device that measures temperature or a temperature gradient. A thermometer has two important elements: (1) a temperature sensor (e.g. the bulb of a mercury-in-glass thermometer or the digital sensor in an infrared thermometer) in which some change occurs with a change in temperature, and  2.some means of converting this change into a numerical value (e.g. the visible scale that is marked on a mercury-in-glass thermometer or the digital readout on an infrared model). Thermometers are widely used in industry to monitor processes, in meteorology, in medicine, and in scientific research.thermometer be dipped inside beaker containing water vertically

Choose the correct option 

  1. A clinical thermometer should be washed using water before and after use

  2. A clinical thermometer should be washed using antiseptic solution before and after use

  3. A clinical thermometer can be used after it is heated by fire

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: B
Explanation:
A clinical thermometer is a thermometer used to measure human body temperature. Most old ones use mercury thermometer. It is accurate and sensitive, because it has a narrow place where the mercury level rises very fast.

These thermometers are used in clinics by doctors, so they are also called a doctor's thermometers or medical thermometers. Most of them show both Celsius scale and Fahrenheit temperature scales. The scale runs from 35 degree Celsius to 42 degree Celsius.

Medical thermometers are cleaned before and after each use, with alcohol.

It has a kink which does not allow the mercury level to fall on its own.

Choose the wrong statement when we measure the temperature of a water kept in a beaker: 

  1. Thermometer should be kept vertical so that the bulb does not touch sides or bottom of the beaker

  2. Thermometer should be kept vertical so that the bulb touches the bottom of the beaker

  3. Thermometer should not be kept tilted so that the bulb touches sides or bottom of the beaker

  4. Thermometer should be kept tilted without touching bottom or sides of the beaker


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

A pot of boiling water is actually slightly higher than the boiling point. The boiling point is defined as the temperature at which the vapour pressure is exactly equal to the external pressure. The “Normal Boiling Point” is the boiling point at exactly 1 atm of pressure. If you look closely at a pot of. Piling water you'll notice bubbles rising from the bottom of the pot. Those bubbles are pure water vapour and since they have pushed back the water that is on top of themselves and the air over the water, they must have had a pressure greater than the external pressure to do that. Those bubbles will stop expanding when the pressure just exactly equals the boiling point and will stay there as they finish rising in the pot. This, the steam just above the water will be a better measure of the boiling point because it will not yet have had a chance to cool down.


Hence Option A is correct

A laboratory thermometer is dipped in a beaker containing ice. As the thermometer is removed the mercury level will

  1. rise

  2. fall

  3. either rise or fall depending upon how much ice is kept inside the beaker

  4. neither rise nor fall


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

A laboratory thermometer is dipped in a beaker containing ice. As the thermometer is removed the mercury level will rise.

The temperature of ice is about 0 degree celsius and temperature of  room is abut 34 degree when thermometer is removed mercury will expand and level will rise.

A laboratory thermometer can not be used to measure

  1. Temperature of ice

  2. Temperature of pond water

  3. Temperature of human body

  4. Temperature of boiling water


Correct Option: C
Explanation:
Laboratory thermometer are used to take measurements in laboratories mainly. They can't be used to measure body temperature of a human. It is because of two reasons.  :
$(1)$ Due to vast difference in the range of operating temperature.
$(2)$ Due to difference in time for which the indicated temperature is held at that level.
Hence, the answer is Temperature of human body.

Which of the following is not true about Laboratory thermometers ?

  1. Laboratory thermometers are used to measure temperatures with a high degree of precision.

  2. Laboratory thermometers are used to measure body temperature.

  3. Range of laboratory thermometer is -10C to 110C

  4. Laboratory thermometers are designed for lab purposes such as checking boiling point, freezing point etc.


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

A laboratory thermometer is a tool used in laboratories to measure temperature with high accuracy. It can be partially or fully immersed in the substance being measured. A laboratory thermometer is recognizable by its long stem with a silver bulb at the end. The silver color in the bulb normally indicates the presence of mercury. Mercury expands as the temperature increases, thus raising the reading, while decreasing temperatures contract the mercury, lowering the reading. Mercury-in-glass thermometers are less used in the 21st century as preference is shifted to other types of thermometers, such as digital, alcohol-filled and organic-based thermometers.

hence,Laboratory thermometers are $not$ used to measure body temperature.

Which of the following is the range of temperature recorded by a laboratory thermometer ?

  1. $0^oC$ to $100^oC$

  2. $-10^oC$ to $110^oC$

  3. $30^oC$ to $120^oC$

  4. $45^oC$ to $145^oC$


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

A laboratory thermometer is used for measuring temperatures other than the human body temperature. It ranges from -10˚C to 110˚C. Laboratory thermometers are designed for lab purposes such as checking boiling point, freezing point, or temperature of other substances

Choose the correct answer from the alternatives given :
For measuring very high temperature, we use

  1. Mercury thermometer

  2. Thermoelectric pyrometer

  3. Platinum resistance thermometer

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Thermoelectric pyrometer is an instrument which uses one or more thermocouples to measure high temperature . 

Hence, option B is correct.

If a thermometer reads freezing point of water as $20^{\circ}C$ and boiling point at $150^{\circ}C$ how much thermometer read when the actual temperature is $60^{\circ}C$.

  1. $98^{\circ}C$

  2. $110^{\circ}C$

  3. $40^{\circ}C$

  4. $60^{\circ}C$


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
We let the unknown degree scale be called ${x}^{\circ}$
Now we know that the freezing point$={20}^{\circ}x$
The boiling point$={150}^{\circ}x$
This also means that ${20}^{\circ}x= {0}^{\circ}$ C($\because$ on a Celcius Scale, the freezing point is ${0}^{\circ}$)
And ${150}^{\circ}x={100}^{\circ}$C (On a  Celcius Scale, boiling point is ${100}^{\circ}$)
Also ${(150-20)}^{\circ}x= {100}^{\circ}$C ($\because$ on a Celcius Scale ${100}^{\circ}-{0}^{\circ}={100}^{\circ}$)
So, if ${100}^{\circ}$C$={130}^{\circ}x$
Then ${1}^{\circ}$C$={1.3}^{\circ}x$
To go from $C$ degree  to $x$, we need to use:
$x=1.3C+20$  
And $C=\dfrac{(x-20)}{1.3}$
So if the temperature given is ${60}^{\circ}$C, then we calculate $x$ as:
$C=\dfrac{(x-20)}{1.3}$  
$\Rightarrow 60=\dfrac{(X-20)}{1.3}$  
$\Rightarrow 60\times 1.3=x-20$  
$\Rightarrow 78=x-20$  
$\Rightarrow x= {98}^{\circ}$  
So ${60}^{\circ}$C will be equal to ${98}^{\circ}$ 

Find the correct temperature if the thermometer reads $20^o$C?

  1. $20^o$C

  2. $12.5^o$C

  3. $25^o$C

  4. $30^o$C


Correct Option: B

Faulty thermo has its fixed pts marked 5g. what is correct temperature in celcius when it reads 5g?

  1. $ 45^0 $

  2. $ 60^0 $

  3. $ 75^0 $

  4. none


Correct Option: A

The freezing point on a thermometer is marked as  $ 20^o$ and the boiling point as $150^o$. A temperature of $(60^o C)$on this thermometer will be read as:

  1. $40^o$

  2. $65^o$

  3. $98^o$

  4. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

$\begin{array}{l} By\, \, u\sin  g\, the\, \, formula \ \dfrac { { { T _{ t } }-{ T _{ fP } } } }{ { { T _{ BP } }-{ T _{ fp } } } } =\dfrac { { T-0 } }{ { 100-0 } }  \ \dfrac { { { T _{ t } }-20 } }{ { 150-20 } } =\dfrac { { 60 } }{ { 100 } }  \ { T _{ t } }-20=\dfrac { { 60\times 130 } }{ { 100 } }  \ { T _{ t } }=78+20 \ ={ 98^{ \circ  } } \ Hence,\, the\, option\, C\, \, is\, the\, correct\, answer. \end{array}\ $

Two thermometers, one calibrated in celsius and the other in fahrenheit scale, are used to measure the temperature of the same object. if the readings are in $ ^0C $ and $ ^0F $ then :

  1. C>F

  2. F

  3. F=C

  4. $ F \gtreqless C $


Correct Option: C

At low temperatures ................. type of thermometer is used.

  1. mercury thermometer

  2. water thermometer

  3. alcohol thermometer

  4. thermometers cannot be used


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Alcohol thermometer.
Alcohol expands uniformly.

It has a low freezing point (-115 degree centigrade) therefore it is very suitable for the place where the temperature gets very low.
It is an easily available cheap liquid, which is safe to use.
Alcohol is cheaper than mercury, and if you break the thermometer, it is not toxic.

The boiling point of mercury is 367$^o$C. A mercury thermometer can be used to measure a temperature of 500$^o$C;

  1. by filling the space above mercury with oxygen at high pressure

  2. by filling the space above mercury with nitrogen at low pressure

  3. by filling the space above mercury with nitrogen at high pressure

  4. by keeping the space above mercury as vacuum


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The mercury thermometer can be used above its boiling point by filling up the space above mercury with nitrogen at high pressure because as pressure increases, boiling point also increases.

Boiling water can be measured by 

  1. Clinical thermometer

  2. Laboratory thermometer

  3. Both may be used conveniently

  4. Both of them can not be used


Correct Option: B
Explanation:
Laboratory thermometers are used to measure temperatures or temperature changes with a high degree of precision. That's why these are mainly used in laboratories. For exp : To measure boiling points of solutions, water etc. They are made up of glass and strength through thermal tempering or annealing. Types : liquid-in-glass, bimetallic strip, infrared based thermometer.
Hence, the answer is Laboratory thermometer.

A clinical thermometer reads temperature from

  1. $35^oC to \ 42^oC$

  2. $0^oC to \ 100^oC$

  3. $25^oC to \ 42^oC$

  4. $35^oC to \ 62^oC$


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
A clinical thermometer is a thermometer used to measure human body temperature. Most made in $20th$ century are mercury-in-glass thermometers. They are very sensitive as mercury level rises very fast with small variation in temperature most of these thermometers shows Celsius and Fahrenheit ( medical thermometer ) scales and runs from $35°C$ to $42°C.$
Hence, the answer is $35°C$ to $42°C.$

The clinical thermometer is designed to measure the temperature of

  1. Human body

  2. Bodies kept in refrigerators

  3. Room temperature

  4. boiling water


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
A Clinical thermometer is a thermometer used to measure human body temperature. Most made in $20th$ century are mercury-in-glass thermometers. They are very fast with small variation in temperature. Most of these thermometers shows Celsius and Fahrenheit ( medical thermometer ) scales and runs from $35°C$ to $42°C.$
Hence, the answer is Human body.

What is the use of kink near the bulb in clinical thermometer

  1. It prevents the level of the mercury from falling when taken out of the mouth

  2. It allows the level of the mercury to fall when taken out of the mouth

  3. It allows the level of the mercury to rise when taken out of the mouth

  4. It prevents the level of the mercury from rising when taken out of the mouth


Correct Option: A,B
Explanation:
Since, in clinical thermometer, mercury is used and level of mercury rises very rapidly with small variation in temperature that's why thermometers provided with kink near the bulb so it prevents the level of mercury from falling when taken out of mouth.
Hence, the answers are it prevent the level of the mercury from falling when taken out of the mouth, it allows the level of the mercury to fall when taken out of the mouth.

When a mercury thermometer is inserted in a pot of hot water and the reading is recorded , what temperature is being 

  1. Average temperature of water and surroundings

  2. Average temperature of thermometer

  3. Average temperature of water and thermometer

  4. Temperature difference between water and surroundings


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

In this process, thermal equilibrium will eventually be reached after inserting the thermometer in hot pot. Hence heat is transferred from the water to the thermometer. 

The steam point and the ice point of a mercury thermometer are marked $80^0$ and $20^0.$  what will be the temperature in centigrade mercury scale when this thermometer reads $32^0$

  1. $20 ^ { 0 } \mathrm { C }$

  2. $5 ^ { 0 } \mathrm { C }$

  3. $10 ^ { 0 } \mathrm { C }$

  4. $26 ^ { 0 } \mathrm { C }$


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

$(x-20)/(80-20) =(C-0)/(100-0)$
$(x-20)/60=(C-0)/100$

Now, given question$,$
$x=32 $
then$ ,$
$(32-20)/60=(C-0)/100$
$12/60=C/100$
$C=20^0$
hence in centigrade thermometer $20^0C$
Hence,
option $(A)$ is correct answer.

Mercury is often used in clinical thermometers. Which one of the following properties of mercury is not a reason for this ?

  1. The coefficient of the thermal expansion is large

  2. It is shiny

  3. It is a liquid at room temperature

  4. It has high density.


Correct Option: D
Explanation:
Mercury is used in thermometer as it has high coefficient of  expansion so even the highest change can be observed, it is spiny So you can see the level of mercury clearly and it is liquid for a wide range of temperature.
Hence, OPTION : D (density).
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