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A 10 kW drilling machine is used to drill a bore in a small aluminium block of mass 8.0 kg. How much is the rise in temperature of the block in 2.5 minutes assuming 50% of power is used up in heating the machine itself or lost to the surroundings? Specific heat of aluminum `=910Jkg^(-1)K^(-1)`.

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`103 ^(@) C`
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