By exerting a certain amount of pressure on an ice block,you:

If in the winter season the surface temperature of a lake is $1^{\circ} C$,the temperature at the bottom of the lake will be ............

An aluminium container of mass $100 \, g$ contains $200 \, g$ of ice at $-20^{\circ} C$. Heat is added to the system at the rate of $100 \, cal/s$. The temperature of the system after $4$ minutes will be ....... $^{\circ} C$ (specific heat of ice $= 0.5 \, cal/g^{\circ} C$,latent heat of fusion $L = 80 \, cal/g$,specific heat of $Al = 0.2 \, cal/g^{\circ} C$,specific heat of water $= 1 \, cal/g^{\circ} C$)

If the $emf$ of a thermocouple,one junction of which is kept at $0\,^{\circ}C$,is given by $e = at + 1/2\,bt^2$,then the neutral temperature will be

An earthen pitcher used in summer cools water in it essentially by evaporation of water from its porous surface. If a pitcher carries $4 \,kg$ of water and the rate of evaporation is $20 \,g$ per hour,the temperature of water in it decreases by $\Delta T$ in two hours. The value of $\Delta T$ is close to ........... $^{\circ} C$ (ratio of latent heat of evaporation to specific heat of water is $540^{\circ} C$).

$A$ pellet of mass $m$ and specific heat capacity $c$ fired from an air gun hits a steel plate with speed $v$. During the impact,$50\%$ of the pellet's kinetic energy is converted to thermal energy in it. The rise in the temperature of the pellet is