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Heat and Thermodynamics Assignment

The document covers various topics related to thermal properties, thermodynamics, and kinetic theory of gases. It includes derivations, definitions, calculations, and principles such as thermal stress, specific heat capacity, calorimetry, and laws of thermodynamics. Additionally, it addresses concepts like pressure exerted by gases, degrees of freedom, and mean free path.

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Heat and Thermodynamics Assignment

The document covers various topics related to thermal properties, thermodynamics, and kinetic theory of gases. It includes derivations, definitions, calculations, and principles such as thermal stress, specific heat capacity, calorimetry, and laws of thermodynamics. Additionally, it addresses concepts like pressure exerted by gases, degrees of freedom, and mean free path.

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THERMAL PROPERTIES OF MATTER

1. Derive the expression for thermal stress.


2. Define Specific heat capacity and Latent heat of a substance, write their SI units.
3. What is the principle of calorimetry?
4. Draw the Phase change diagram when ice at -100C is heated to convert in to steam at 1000C.
5. An automobile radiator contains 20 kg of water. If the motor of that automobile supplies 200,000 J of
heat to the cooling system, what is the rise in temperature? Given, specific heat capacity of water =
4200 J / kg K.
6. An iron bar of 50 cm at 15 OC is heated in a furnace. The length of the iron bar becomes 50.4 cm after
heating. Find the temperature of the furnace. The co-efficient of linear expansion of iron = 11×10-6 OC.
7. What is the amount of heat required to convert 2 kg of ice at 0 ο C to water at 10οC. (Latent heat of
fusion of ice = 335 x 103 J/kg and specific heat capacity of water =4200 J/kg/K)
8. Define conduction, Convection and Radiation
9. What is thermal conductivity and write its SI unit?
10.What is the temperature of the steel-copper junction in the steady state of the system shown in Fig.
Length of the steel rod = 15.0 cm, length of the copper rod = 10.0 cm,
temperature of the furnace = 300 °C, temperature of the other end = 0 °C.
The area of cross section of the steel rod is twice that of the copper rod.
(Thermal conductivity of steel = 50.2 J s–1 m–1K–1; and of copper = 385 J s–1m–1K–1)
11.State Newton’s law of cooling.
12.What is a black body?
13.State Wein’s displacement law.
14.State Stefan’s law.

THERMODYNAMICS
1. Differentiate between isothermal and adiabatic process?
2. State the zeroth law of thermodynamics?
3. Derive an expression for the work done during isothermal expansion?
4. Derive an expression for the work done during the adiabatic process
5. A gas expands from a volume V1 to V2 in isothermal, adiabatic and isobaric process as shown in figure.
Write which of these processes are denoted by the curves AB, AC and AD. For which among these
processes, the work done is maximum.

6. What is meant by reversible process? Give an example for it.


7. Write the difference between Cyclic and non-cyclic process.

8. State first law of thermodynamics.


9. State second law of thermodynamics
10. What do you mean by an adiabatic process? Write the equation of state for an adiabatic process.
11. A thermodynamic system is taken through the cycle PQRSP process. Calculate the net work done by
the system.

KINETIC THEORY OF GASES


1. On the basis of kinetic theory of gases, derive an expression for pressure exerted by an ideal gas.
2. Calculate the degree of freedom for monoatomic, diatomic and triatomic gas?
3. Show that average kinetic energy of translation per molecule of gas is directly proportional to the
absolute temperature of gas?
4. The density of Carbon dioxide gas at 0°C and at a pressure of 1.0 × 10 6 newton/m2 is 1.98 kg/m3 . Find
the root mean square velocity of its molecules at 0°C and 30°C. Pressure is kept constant.
5. Figure shows a plot of PV/T verses P for 1.00x10-3kg of oxygen gas
at two different temperatures.
(a) What does the dotted plot signify?
(b) Which is true:T1 >T2 (or)T1<T2?
(c) What is the value of PV/T where the curves meet on the Y-axis?
6. Calculate the specific heats of a rigid diatomic (Oxygen) gas.
7. State law of equipartition of energy.
8. Define the term mean free path. Write an expression for mean free path.
9. (i) On the basis of kinetic theory of gases, write down an expression for pressure exerted by a gas. (ii)
The pressure of a gas in a closed container increases when the gas is heated. Explain this based on the
kinetic theory of gases.

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