Question

A cooking pot should have
a.) High specific heat and low conductivity
b.) High specific heat and high conductivity
c.) Low specific heat and low conductivity
d.) Low specific heat and high conductivity

Answer 1

Hint: A cooking pot is used to cook different dishes and they are made in such a way that our dish gets ready in very less time and with minimum loss of energy, we all have used a cooking pot in our everyday life and we are much familiar with it and its functions and uses.

Complete step by step answer:
A cooking pot needs to be made in such a way that it will cook our food as soon as possible, but when we talk in terms of physics, we have specific terms used for each of the processes. In this question we are asked about those specific terms.
So, a cooking pot must be a good conductor of heat so that all the heat energy that we are supplying externally gets conducted and our food cooks fast. A cooking pot should have to absorb less heat by itself, if cooking pot absorb more heat then very less amount of given heat will be transferred to out food and our food will cook slowly and my even remains uncooked
So, we can say that a cooking pot must be of high conductivity and low specific heat.

So, the correct answer is “Option d”.

Note: When we talk about cooking we mostly talk about heat conductivity instead of electrical conductivity, In the given options it was not mentioned what type of conductivity we are talking about. Always remember that a cooking pot must be a good conductor of heat.