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### Step-by-Step Solution: 1. **Understanding Heat Absorption**: - Different colors absorb heat differently. Dark colors, such as black, absorb more heat compared to light colors, like white. 2. **Effect of Sunlight**: - When sunlight (which contains various wavelengths of light) hits an object, the color of that object determines how much of that light is absorbed or reflected. - Light colors reflect most of the light and absorb very little, while dark colors absorb a significant amount of light. ...
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LAKHMIR SINGH & MANJIT KAUR-HEAT-EXERCISE
  1. Describe the blowing of sea-breeze and land-breeze in coastal areas .

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  2. Why do people prefer to wear white clothes in summer ?

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  3. Why is it better to wear dark clothes in winter ?

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  6. Why is the box of a solar cooker painted black from inside ?

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  7. In places of hot climate, it is advised that the outer walls of houses...

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  8. What is meant by 'convection' ? Explain with the help of an example. W...

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  9. Define radiation. Give any two examples where heat is transferred by r...

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  10. A person bought a book at 20% discount and sold it at 10% discount. In...

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  11. Stainless steel cooking pans are preferred with extra copper bottoms. ...

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  12. A wooden spoon is dipped in a cup of ice cream. Its other end

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  14. The expansion of one of the following liquids is used for measuring th...

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  17. Digital thermometers available these days for measuring temperature us...

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  18. Which of the following is not a method of transfer of heat ?

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  19. Which of the following is not an insulator ?

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  20. A liquid which is a good conductor of heat is :

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