Q55 / 68 · NEST (NISER) 2021 (Session 2) · Physics
A refrigerator with a 50 W motor is to be used to freeze 2 kg of water at 273 K in an insulated vessel. The outside temperature is 300 K . The smallest possible time to do this is (take the latent heat of fusion of water to be $3.33 \times 10^5 \mathrm{~J}^{\mathrm{J}} \mathrm{kg}^{-1}$ )
- A$2.51 \times 10^3 \mathrm{~s}$
- B$2.80 \times 10^3 \mathrm{~s}$
- C$1.19 \times 10^3 \mathrm{~s}$
- Correct answerD$1.31 \times 10^3 \mathrm{~s}$
Hence, the correct answer is option: 'D'.