$10\, g$ of a lead bullet travelling at $300\, m/s$ strikes against a block of wood and comes to rest. Assuming $50\%$ of the heat produced is absorbed by the bullet,the increase in its temperature is ........ $^\circ C$. (Specific heat of lead $= 150\, J/kg\cdot K$)

Work done in converting one gram of ice at $-10^{\circ}C$ into steam at $100^{\circ}C$ is ....... $J$

$A$ glass flask of volume $200 \, cm^3$ is just filled with mercury at $20^{\circ} C$. The amount of mercury that will overflow when the temperature of the system is raised to $100^{\circ} C$ is ........ $cm^3$ $(\gamma_{\text{glass}} = 1.2 \times 10^{-5} /^{\circ}C, \gamma_{\text{mercury}} = 1.8 \times 10^{-4} /^{\circ}C)$

Work done (heat energy required) in converting $1\,g$ of ice at $-10\,^{\circ}C$ into steam at $100\,^{\circ}C$ is ......... $J$. (Take specific heat of ice $= 0.5\,cal/g^{\circ}C$,latent heat of fusion $= 80\,cal/g$,specific heat of water $= 1\,cal/g^{\circ}C$,latent heat of vaporization $= 540\,cal/g$,and $1\,cal = 4.2\,J$)

During summers in India,one of the common practices to keep cool is to make ice balls of crushed ice,dip them in flavoured sugar syrup,and sip them. For this,a stick is inserted into crushed ice,and it is squeezed in the palm to make it into a ball. Equivalently in winter,in those areas where it snows,people make snowballs and throw them around. Explain the formation of a ball out of crushed ice or snow in the light of the $p-T$ diagram of water.

Explain why:
$(a)$ Two bodies at different temperatures $T_1$ and $T_2$,if brought in thermal contact,do not necessarily settle to the mean temperature $(T_1 + T_2) / 2$.
$(b)$ The coolant in a chemical or a nuclear plant (i.e.,the liquid used to prevent the different parts of a plant from getting too hot) should have high specific heat.
$(c)$ Air pressure in a car tyre increases during driving.
$(d)$ The climate of a harbour town is more temperate than that of a town in a desert at the same latitude.