WAEC - Physics (1998 - No. 21)

A waterfall is 1260m high. Calculate the change in temperature of a quantity of water that falls from the top to the bottom of the waterfall. (Neglect heat losses to the surroundings, take g as 10m-2 and specific heat capacity of water as 4200Jkg-1K-1)
0.3oC
3.0oC
33.3oC
42.0oC
100.0oC

Explanation

\(\Delta t = \frac{gh}{c} = \frac{1260 \times 10}{4200}\)

= 3.0o

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