Thermal Properties of Matter

27 topics, ranked by how often each is asked.

  • 49 questions
  • 30 papers
  • 2.78% of Physics

Topics

The squares are the last ten exam years: filled means it was asked that year.

Most asked first

27 topics · 49 questions
  1. 1Thermal conduction14%7 questionsPractise Thermal conduction
  2. 2Wien's displacement law12%6 questionsPractise Wien's displacement law
  3. 3Stefan–Boltzmann law10%5 questionsPractise Stefan–Boltzmann law
  4. 4Newton's Law of Cooling8.2%4 questionsPractise Newton's Law of Cooling
  5. 5Thermal Expansion6.1%3 questionsPractise Thermal Expansion
  6. 6Stefan's law6.1%3 questionsPractise Stefan's law
  7. 7Thermal Conduction in Series2%1 questionPractise Thermal Conduction in Series
  8. 8Specific Heat Capacity and Calorimetry2%1 questionPractise Specific Heat Capacity and Calorimetry
  9. 9Heat Transfer – Conduction2%1 questionPractise Heat Transfer – Conduction
  10. 10Thermal conduction and insulation2%1 questionPractise Thermal conduction and insulation
  11. 11Specific heat capacity2%1 questionPractise Specific heat capacity
  12. 12Wien's displacement law - colour and temperature2%1 questionPractise Wien's displacement law - colour and temperature
  13. 13Thermal conduction - junction temperature2%1 questionPractise Thermal conduction - junction temperature
  14. 14Growth of ice layer - thermal conduction2%1 questionPractise Growth of ice layer - thermal conduction
  15. 15Black body radiation – Wien's law and Stefan's law2%1 questionPractise Black body radiation – Wien's law and Stefan's law
  16. 16Thermal conduction – rods in parallel2%1 questionPractise Thermal conduction – rods in parallel
  17. 17Linear thermal expansion2%1 questionPractise Linear thermal expansion
  18. 18Black body radiation – Wien's displacement law2%1 questionPractise Black body radiation – Wien's displacement law
  19. 19Latent heat and conservation of energy2%1 questionPractise Latent heat and conservation of energy
  20. 20Calorimetry – temperature-dependent heat capacity2%1 questionPractise Calorimetry – temperature-dependent heat capacity
  21. 21Calorimetry2%1 questionPractise Calorimetry
  22. 22Change of state2%1 questionPractise Change of state
  23. 23Temperature Scales2%1 questionPractise Temperature Scales
  24. 24Thermal Radiation and Wien's Law2%1 questionPractise Thermal Radiation and Wien's Law
  25. 25Conduction: Slabs in Series2%1 questionPractise Conduction: Slabs in Series
  26. 26Black Body Radiation2%1 questionPractise Black Body Radiation
  27. 27Convection2%1 questionPractise Convection

Questions per paper

Asked in 11 of the last 16 papers (2017–2026).

  1. 2026: not asked
  2. 2026 Re-NEET: 1 question
  3. 2025: 1 question
  4. 2024: not asked
  5. 2024 Re-NEET: 2 questions
  6. 2023: not asked
  7. 2023 Manipur: not asked
  8. 2022: not asked
  9. 2022 Phase 2: 1 question
  10. 2021: 1 question
  11. 2020: 1 question
  12. 2020 Phase-2: 1 question
  13. 2019: 2 questions
  14. 2019 Odisha: 2 questions
  15. 2018: 1 question
  16. 2017: 2 questions

Concepts tested

  • Wien's law 2
  • Average-temperature form of Newton's law
  • Cavity radiator as ideal black body
  • Change in density on heating
  • Colour and temperature
  • Conduction and latent heat
  • constant-length-difference-expansion
  • Conversion between linear temperature scales
  • cooling time for a cup of coffee
  • Dependence on area and length
  • equal linear expansion of two rods
  • Equivalent conductivity of slabs in series
  • falling-ice-melting-height
  • Growth of ice layer - thermal conduction
  • heat capacity of spheres of different radii
  • Heat conducted through a rod
  • Heat current depends on temperature difference
  • Heating curve