NATIONAL MODEL SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL

PEELAMEDU – COIMBATORE
CLASS : XI PHYSICS
VOLUME 2 - QUESTION BANK
Ch 9: Mechanical properties of Solids
1. Stress and types
2. Strain and types
3. Hooke’s law, Modulus of elasticity & types
4. Stress – strain curve
5. Poisson’s Ratio
Ch 10: Mechanical properties of fluids
1. Pressure
2. Pascal’s law
3. Viscosity, Reynold’s number, Types of flow
4. Equation of continuity
5. Bernoulli’s theorem, Limitations, Applications
6. Stoke’s law and terminal velocity
7. Surface tension and surface energy
8. Excess pressure in liquid drop
9. Capillarity
Ch 11: Thermal Properties of Matter
1. Temperature scales
2. Thermal expansion
3. Heat capacity, Specific heat capacity, molar specific heat capacity &
latent heat
4. Change of state
5. Thermal Conductivity
6. Newton’s law of cooling
Ch 14: Oscillation
1. Types of motion
2. SHM for loaded spring, Simple pendulum & UCM
3. Kinetic energy, Potential energy & Total energy of SHM
4. Types of oscillations, Resonance
5. Equation for SHM & Numerical
Ch 15: Waves
 1. Wave & types
2. Wave equation & basic definitions, Numerical
3. Reflected wave
4. Superposition of waves
VOLUME 1 & 2 DERIVATION LIST
Derivation List:
1. Kinematic equations for uniformly accelerated motion
2. Angular projection
3. Level road, Banked road
4. Potential energy of spring
5. Elastic collision
6. Stress – strain curve
7. Bernoulli’s theorem, Limitations, Applications
8. Stoke’s law and terminal velocity
9. Excess pressure in liquid drop
10.Capillarity
11. Newton’s law of cooling
12.SHM for loaded spring, Simple pendulum & UCM
13.Kinetic energy, Potential energy & Total energy of SHM

CHAPTER 9: MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS

ASSIGNMENT
I. Numericals on Young’s Modulus:
1. The length of a suspended wire increases by 10 -4 of its original length when a
stress of 107 Nm-2 is applied on it. Calculate the Young’s modulus of the
material of the wire. (Ans: 1011N/m2)
2. A uniform wire of steel of length 2.5m and density 8 gcm -3 weighs 50 g.
When stretched by a force of 10 kgf the length increases by 2 mm. Calculate
Young’s modulus of the material of steel. (Ans: 4.9x1011 dyne cm-2)
3. A structural steel rod has a radius of 10 mm and a length of 1 m. A 100 kN
force stretches it along is length. Calculate (a) the stress (b) elongation
(c) strain on the rod. Given that the Young’s modulus of the steel material is
2x1011 N/m2. (Ans: (a) 3.18x108 N/m2 (b) 1.59mm (c) 0.16%)
4. What is the percentage increase in the length of a wire of diameter 2.5 mm
stretched by a force of 100 kg wt? Given Y = 12.5 x 1011 dyne /cm2.
(Ans: 0.16%)
5. A wire increases by 10-3 of its length when a stress of 1x10 8 Nm-2 is applied to
it. What is the Young’s modulus of the material of the wire? (Ans:1011 N/m2)
6. What force is required to stretch a steel wire 1 cm 2 in cross section to double
its length? Given Y = 2x1011 N/m2. (Ans:; 2x107 N/m2)
7. Find the stress to be applied to a steel wire to stretch it by 0.0025% of its
original length. Y for steel is 9x1010 N/m2. (Ans: 2.25x107 N/m2)
8. Two wires made of the same material are subjected to forces in the ratio of
1:4. Their lengths are in the ratio 8:1 and diameter in the ratio 2:1. Find the ratio
of their extensions. (Ans: 1:2)
9. A wire elongates by 9 mm when a load o 10 kg is suspended from it. What is
the elongation when its radius is doubled, if all other quantities are as before?
(Ans: 2.25 mm)
10. A steel wire of length 5 m and cross section 3x10 -5 m2 stretches by the same
amount as a copper wire of length 3 m and cross section 4x10 -5 m2 under a given
load. What is the ratio of Young’s modulus of steel to that of copper?
(Ans: 2.22)
II. Numericals on Bulk Modulus:
1. The pressure of a medium is changed from 1.01x10 5 Pa to 1.165x105 Pa and
change is volume is 10% keeping temperature constant. Find the bulk modulus
of the medium. (Ans: 1.55x105 Pa)
2. The average depth of Indian ocean is about 3000 m. Calculate the fractional
compression ΔV/V, of water at the bottom of the ocean, given that the bulk
modulus of water is 2.2x109 N/m2. (Ans: 1.36%)
3. A sphere contracts in volume by 0.01% when taken to the bottom of sea 1 km
deep. Find the bulk modulus of the material of the sphere. Density of sea water
may be taken as1x103 kg/m3. (Ans: 9.8x1010 N/m2)
4. A solid sphere of radius 10 cm is subjected to a uniform pressure = 5x10 8
N/m2. Determine the consequent change in volume. Bulk modulus of the
material of the sphere is equal to 3.14x1011 N/m2. (Ans: 6.67x10-6 m3)
5. Find the change in volume which 1 m3 of water will undergo when taken
from the surface to the bottom of a lake 100 m deep. Given volume elasticity of
water is 22,000 atmosphere. (Ans: 4.4x10-4 m3)
6. A spherical ball contracts in volume by 0.0098% when subjected to a pressure
of 100 atm. Calculate its bulk modulus. Given 1 atm = 1.01x10 5 N/m2.
(Ans: 1.033 x 1011 N/m2)
III. Numericals on Shear Modulus:
1. A cube of aluminum of each side 4 cm is subjected to a tangential (shearing)
force. The top face of the cube is sheared through 0.012 cm with respect to the
bottom face. Find i) Shearing strain ii) shear stress and shearing force. Given
G = 2.08x1011 dyne/cm2. (Ans: 0.003 rad, 10 x 109 dyne)
2. A square lead slab of side 50 cm and thickness 10 cm is subjected to a
shearing force of magnitude 9x104 N. The lower edge is riveted to the floor.
How much is upper edge displaced, if the shear modulus of lead is 5.6x109 Pa?
(Ans: 0.16 mm)
3. A metallic cube whose each side is 10 cm is subjected to a shearing force of
100 kgf. The top face is displaced through 0.25 cm with respect to the bottom.
Calculate the shearing stress, strain and shear modulus.
(Ans: 9.8x104 N/m2, 0.025 rad, 3.92x106 N/m2)
IV. Numericals on Poisson’s Ratio:
1. One end of a nylon rope of length 4.5 m and diameter 6 mm is fixed to a tree
limb. A monkey weighing 100 N jumps to catch the free end and stays there.
Find the elongation of the rope and the corresponding change in the diameter.
Young modulus of nylon =4.8×1011Nm-2 and Poisson ratio of nylon =0.2.
(Ans: 3.32x10-5m, 8.8x10-9 m)
2. Calculate the Poisson’s ratio for silver. Given its Y = 7.25x10 10 N/m2 and
B = 11x1010 N/m2. (Ans: 0.39)
V. Numericals on Stess – Strain curve:
1. Following are the graphs of elastic materials. Which one corresponds to that
of brittle material?

2. Find Young’s modulus and approximate yield strength for the given
material?
3. The stress – strain graphs for materials A and B are shown.

The graphs are drawn to the same scale.

(a) Which of the material has greater Young’s modulus?
(b) Which material is more ductile?
(c) Which of the two material is stronger?
 CHAPTER 10: MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF FLUIDS
I. Numericals on PRESSURE:
1.The two thigh bones (femurs), each of cross-sectional area 10cm2 support the
upper part of a human body of mass 40kg. Estimate the total pressure sustained by
the both femurs. (Given g=10ms−2). (Ans:2x105N/m2)
2. How much pressure will a man of weight 80 kgf exert on the ground if (1) he
is lying and (2) he is standing on his feet? Given that the area of the body of the
man is 0.6m² and that of his foot is 80cm²? (Ans: 1.307×10 3 Nm-2, 5x10 4 Nm-2)

3. Find the pressure exerted at the tip of a drawing pin if it is pushed against a
board with a force of 20N. Assume the area of the tip to be 0.1mm2. (Ans: 2x108 Pa)

II. Numericals on PASCAL’s law:

1. In a car lift compressed air exerts a force F1 on a small piston having a radius
of 5cm. This pressure is transmitted to a second piston of radius 15cm. If the
mass of the car to be lifted is 1350 kg. What is F1? What is the pressure
necessary to accomplish this task? (Ans: 1.5x103 N, 1.9x105Pa)

2. Two syringes of different cross section (without needle) filled with water are
connected with a tightly fitted rubber tube filled with water. Diameters of the smaller
piston and larger piston are 1 cm and 3 cm respectively. If a force of 10 N is applied to
the smaller piston, what is the force exerted on the larger piston? (Ans: 90N)
3. An automobile back is lifted by a hydraulic jack that consists of two pistons.
The large piston is 70 cm in diameter and the small piston is 8 cm in diameter. If
W is the weight of the car, how much smaller a force is required on the small
piston in order to lift the car? (Ans: 1% of W)
4. Two pistons of hydraulic press have diameters of 30 cm & 2.5 cm. What is
the force exerted by a large piston , when 50 kg weight is placed on the smaller
piston? If the stroke of the smaller piston is 4 cm, through what distance will the
larger piston move. (Ans: 7200 kgwt, 0.028 cm)
5. In a hydraulic press used for compressing cotton the area of the piston
is 0.1 m2 and the force exerted along the piston rod is 200 N. If the area of the
larger cylinder is 0.8 m2, find the pressure produced in the cylinder and the total
crushing force exerted on the bale of cotton. (Ans: 2000 N/m2, 1600N)

III. Numericals on Pressure exertedby a liquid column and gauge pressure:

1. What is the pressure on a swimmer 10m below the surface of a lake? Given: density
of water = 1000 kg/m3, g= 9.8m/s2, atm pressure = 1x105 Pa. (Ans: 2 atm)
2. The density of the atmosphere at sea level is 1.29kg/m3. Assume that it does not
change with altitude. Then how high would the atmosphere extend? (Ans: 8 km)
3. At a depth of 1000 m in an ocean (a) what is the absolute pressure? (b) What
is the gauge pressure? (c) Find the force acting on the window of
area 20 cm×20 cm of a submarine at this depth, the interior of which is
maintained at sea level atmospheric pressure. (The density of sea water
is 1.03×103 kg/m3, g=10 m/s2). (Ans:104 atm, 103 atm, 4.12x105 N)
4. Water is filled in a flask up to a height of 20cm . The bottom of the flask is
circular with radius 10cm. If the atmospheric pressure is 1.01×10 5 Pa, find the
first exerted by the water on the bottom. Take g=10m/s^2and density of water
=1000 kg/m3. (Ans: 3246 N)
5. If the water pressure shows the pressure at ground floor to be 270 kPa, how
high would water rise in the pipes of a building? (Ans: 27.6 m)
IV. Numericals on coefficient of viscosity:
1. A metal plate 5cm x 5cm rests on a layer of castor oil 1 mm thick whose
coefficient of viscosity is 1.55Nsm-2. Find the horizontal force required to move
the plate with a speed of 2 cm/s. (Ans: 0.0775 N)
2. A square metal plate of 10 cm side moves parallel to another plate with a
velocity of 10 cm/s, both plates immersed in water. If the viscous force is 200
dyne and viscosity of water is 0.01 poise, what is their distance apart.
(Ans: 0.05 cm)
3. The velocity of water in a river is 180 km/hr near the surface. If the river is 5
m deep, find the shearing stress between horizontal layers of water. Coefficient
of viscosity of water = 0.01 poise. (Ans: 0.001N/m2)
4. A flat square plate of side 20 cm moves over another similar plate with a thin
layer of 0.4 cm of a liquid between them. If a force of one kg wt moves one of
the plates uniformly with a velocity of 1 m/s, calculate the coefficient of
viscosity of the liquid. (Ans: 0.98 Pas)
5. The velocity of water in a river is 180 km/hr near the surface. If the river is
5 m deep, find the shearing stress between horizontal layers of water.
Coefficient of viscosity of water = 1/100 poise. (Ans: 1/1000 N/m2)
6. A metal plate of area 0.02 m2 is lying on a liquid layer of thickness 1/1000 m
and coefficient of viscosity 120 poise. Calculate the horizontal force required to
move the plate with a speed of 0.025 m/s. (Ans: 6 N)

V. Numericals on Stroke’s law and terminal veocity:

1. A rain drop of radius 0.3mm falls through air with a terminal velocity of 1
m/s. The viscosity of air is 18x10-5 poise. Find the viscous force on the rain
drop. (Ans: 1.018 x 10-2 dyne)
2. An iron ball of radius 0.3 cm falls through a column of oil of density 0.94
g/cm3. It is found to attain a terminal velocity of 0.5 cm/s. Determine the
viscosity of the oil. Given that density of iron is 7.8 g/cm3. (Ans: 269 poise)
3. Find the terminal velocity of a steel ball 2 mm in diameter falling through
glycerin. Density of steel = 8, density of glycerin = 1.3 and viscosity of gycerine
= 8.3 poise. (Ans: 1.758 cm/s)
4. Eight rain drops of radius 1 mm each falling down with terminal velocity of 5
cm/s coalesce to form a bigger raindrop. Find the terminal velocity of the bigger
drop. (Ans: 20 cm/s)
I. Numericals on Reynold’s number:
1.Water is flowing in a pipe of radius 1.5 cm with an average velocity of 15
cm/s. What is the nature of flow? Given coefficient of viscosity of water is 10 -3
kg/m/s and its density is 103 kg/m3. (Ans: Re = 4500)
2. The flow rate of water from a tap of diameter 1.25 cm is 0.48 L/min. The
coefficient of viscosity of water is 10-3 Pas. After some time the flow rate is
increased to 3 L/min. Characterize the flow for both the flow rates.
(Ans: 815, 5096)
3. What should be the maximum average velocity of water in a tube of diameter
1 cm so that the flow is laminar? The viscosity of water is 0.00125 Ns/m2.

VI. Numericals on Equation of continuity and Bernoulli’s theorem:

1. Water flows into a horizontal pipe whose one end is closed with a valve and
the reading of a pressure gauge attached to the pipe is 3.5x10 5 N/m2. This
reading of the pressure gauge falls to 3x105 N/m2 when the valve is opened.
Calculate the speed of water flowing into the pipe. (Ans: 10 m/s)
2. A fully loaded Boeing aircraft has a mass of 3.3×105 kg, its total wing area
is 500 m2. It is in level flight with speed of 960 km/h. (a) Estimate the pressure
difference between the lower and upper surfaces of the wings. (b) Estimate the
fractional increase in the speed of the air on the upper surface of the wing
relative to lower surface. (The density of air is ρ=1.2 kg m−3)
(Ans: 6.5x103 N/m2, 8%)
3. Water is flowing through two horizontal pipes of different diameter which are
connected together. The diameter of the two pipes
are 3 cm and 6 cm respectively. If the speed of water in the narrower tube
is 4 m/s. Find the speed and pressure of water in the wider tube.

(Ans: 1m/s, 2.75x104 N/m2)

 CHAPTER 11: THERMAL PROPERTIES OF MATTER
I. Numericals on MEASUREMENT OF TEMPERATURE:
1. Normal temperature of the human body is 98.4 oF. Find the temperature on
Celsius and absolute scale (kelvin scale). (Ans: 36.88oC, 310.03 K)
2. At what temperature, do the readings of Celsius and Fahrenheit scales
coincide? (Ans: -40oC and -40oF are identical temperatures)

3. A faulty thermometer has its fixed points marked as 5 o and 95o. Temperature
of a body as measured by the faculty thermometer is 59 o. Find the correct
temperature of the body on Celsius scale. (Ans: Tc = 60oC)

4. A faculty thermometer reads 5oC in melting ice and 99oC in steam. Find the
correct temperature in oF when the faulty thermometer reads 52oC.
(Ans: 122oF)
5. A platinum wire has resistance of 10 ohm at 0 oC and 20 ohm at 273oC. Find
the value of coefficient of resistance. (Ans: 1/273 peroC)

6. At what temperature is the Fahrenheit scale reading equal to half of Celsius

scale reading? (Ans: -24.6 oC)

7. The resistance of a resistance thermometer at 19 oC is 3.50 ohm and at 99 oC is

3.66 ohm. At what temperature will its resistance be 4.30 ohm?
(Ans: 419oC)

II. Numericals on THERMAL EXPANSION:

1. Railway lines are laid with gaps to allow for expansion. If the gap between
steel rails 66m long be 3.63 cm at 10oC, then at what temperature will the lines
just touch? Coefficient of linear expansion of steel = 11x10-6oC-1 (Ans: 60oC)

2. A metal ball 0.1m in radius is heated from 273 to 348 K. Calculate the
increase in surface area of the ball. Given Coefficient of area expansion =
0.000034 /K. (Ans: 3.206x10-4 sq. m)
3.On heating a glass block of 10000 cm 3, from 25oC to 40oC, its volume
increases by 4 cm3. Calculate coefficient of cubical and linear expansion of
glass. (Ans: 26.67x10-6 oC-1, 8.89x10-6 oC-1)

4. If the volume of a block changes by 0.12% when it is heated through 20oC,

what is the coefficient of cubical and linear expansion of block.

(Ans: 6x10-5 oC-1, 2x10-5 oC-1)

5. How much the temperature of a brass rod should be increased so as to

increase its length by 1%?
Given that coefficient of linear expansion = 0.00002 /oC (Ans: 500 oC)
6. What should be lengths of steel and copper rod, so that the length of steel rod
is 5 cm longer than the copper rod at all temperature? (Ans: 9.17 cm, 14.17cm)
(Given: α for copper =1.7×10−5 ∘C−1 and α for steel =1.1×10−5 ∘C−1)

7. A steel wire 2mm in diameter is stretched between 2 clamps when it's temp. is
40°C . Calculate the tension in the wire when it's temperature falls 30°C ?
Given, Coefficient of linear expansion of steel = 11 × 10 -6 °C-1 And Y (young's
modulus ) of steel = 21 × 10 11 dyne/cm^2. (Ans: 7.26x106 dyne)

III. Numericals on Specific and Latent heat:

1. Calculate the heat required to convert 3 kg of ice at −12∘C kept in a
calorimeter to steam at 100∘C at atmospheric pressure. Given,
specific heat capacity of ice = 2100Jkg−1K−1
specific heat capacity of water = 4186Jkg−1K−1
Latent heat of fusion of ice = 3.35×105Jkg−1
and latent heat of steam = 2.256×106Jkg−1 (Ans:9.1x106 J)
2.A refrigerator converts 50 gram of water at 15oC into ice at 0oC in one hour.

Calculate the quantity of heat removed per minute. Take specific heat of water =
1calg-1oC-1 and latent heat of ice = 80 cal g-1. (Ans: 79.2 cal/min)
3.A normal diet furnishes 2000 kcal to a 60 kg personin a day. If this energy was
used to heat the personwith no losses to the surroundings, how muchwould
the person’s temperature increase? The specific heat of the human body =
0.83cal/g/oC. (Ans: 40.16 oC)

IV. Numericals on Thermal Conductivity:

1. Calculate the rate of loss of heat through a glass window of area 1000 cm2
and thickness 0.4 cm when temperature inside is 37oC and outside is -5oC.
(Ans: 231 cal/s)
2. Steam at 100oC is passed into a copper cylinder 10mm thick and of
200 cm2area . Water at 100oC collects at the rate of 150g min-1. Find the
temperature of the outer surface, if the conductivity of copper is 0.8 cal s -10C-1
and the latent heat of steam is 540 cal g-1? (Ans: 91.56 oC)
3. A metal rod of length 20cm and diameter 2cm is covered with a non-
conducting substance. One of it ends is maintained at 100 0c while the other is at
00c. It is found that 25g of ice melts in 5 min calculate coefficient of thermal
conductivity of metal? (Ans: 0.424 cal/s/cm/oC)
4. Two metal cubes A and B of same size are arranged as shown in Figure. The
extreme ends of the combination are maintained at the indicated temperatures.
The arrangement is thermally insulated. The coefficients of thermal conductivity
of A and B are 300 W / m∘C and 200 W / m∘C , 300W/m∘Cand200W/m∘C,
respectively. After steady state is reached the temperature t of the interface will
be ......
 (Ans: 60 oC)
5. Calculate the temperature difference between two sides of an iron plate 2 mm
thick,when heat is transmitted through the plate at the rate of 600 kcal per
minuteper square meter. Thermal conductivity of iron is 0.2 cal/s cm oC.
(Ans: 10oC)
6.A flat-bottom kettle placed on a stove is being used to boil water and the
thermal conductivity of the material is 0.5 cal s^(-1) cm^(-1). If the amount of
steam being produced in the kettle is at rate 10 g min^(-1), calculate the
difference of temperature between the inner and outer surface of the bottom.
The latent heat of steam is 540 cal g^(-1). (Ans: 0.2oC)
7. A body of length 1m having cross – sectional area 0.75 m2 has heat flow
through it at the rate of 6000 J/s. If K = 2000 J/m 2oC, then the temperature
difference across the ends of the body is ______ (Ans: 40oC)

V. Numericals on Newton’s laws of Cooling:

1. A body cools in 7 minutes from 60oC to 40oC. If the temperature of
surrounding is 10oC, the temperature after next 7 minutes will be? Assume that
Newton’s law of cooling holds good throughout the process. (Ans: T2 = 28oC)

2. A pan filled with hot food cools from 94∘C to 86∘C in 2 minutes. When the
room temperature is 20∘C. How long will it cool from 74∘C to 66∘C?(Ans:
42s)
3.A body cools from 80oC to 64oC in 5 min and same body cools from 80 oC to
52oC in 10 min. What is the temperature of surrounding? (Ans: 24oC)
4. Rate of cooling at 600 K, if surrounding temperature is 300 K is R. The rate
of cooling at 900 K is _____ (Ans: 2R)
5.The two ends of a metal rod are maintained at 100 oC and 11oC. The rate of
heat flow is 4J/s and if the ends are maintained at temperatures 200 oC and
210oC, the rate of heat flow will be ______ (Ans: 4J/s)

QUESTIONS TO REVISE:

TWO MARK:
1. Why birds are often seen to swell their feathers in winter?
2. White clothes are more comfortable in summer while colorful clothes are
more comfortable in winter. Why?
3. Which object will cool faster when kept in open air, the one at 300oC or the
one at 100oC? Why?
4. Give reasons why mercury is used in thermometers.
5. Distinguish between conduction, convection and radiation.
6. Define heat capacity, specific heat and molar specific heat capacity.
7. Define latent heat of fusion and vaporization.
8. What is greenhouse effect and black body?
9. What is the principle of calorimetry?
10. Wien’s displacement law?
 CHAPTER 12: THERMODYNAMICS
I. Numericals on Work done during a cyclic process:
1. One mole of an ideal gas undergoes a cyclic change ABCD. Calculate the net
work done in the process. Take atm = 106 dyne/cm2 and 1 litre = 103 cm3.

(Ans:9x109 erg)
2. One mole of an ideal gas undergoes a cyclic change ABCD where the (P. V)
co-ordinates are A(5, 1), B(5,3), C(2, 3) and D(2, 1). The 'units' of P and V are
as indicated in the diagram. Calculate the work done along each of the segments
AB, BC, CD and DA.Also calculate net work done in the process.Take,
1atm = 1x105 Pa and 1 litre = 10-3 m3. (Ans: 1010 J, 0, -404 J, 0, 606J)
3.The P - V diagram for a cyclic process is a triangle ABC drawn in order. The
co-ordinates of A, B, C are (4,1), (2,4), and (2,1). The co-ordinates are in the
order (P-V). Pressure is in Nm-2 and volume is in litre. Calculate the work done
during the process from A to B, B to C and C to A. Also calculate the work done
in the complete cycle. (Ans: 9x10-3 J, -6x10-3J, 0, 3x10-3 J)
4.

Calculate the path along which work done is the least in the following fig.

(Ans: 60J (ABC), 40J(AC), 170J)

Numericals based on First law of thermodynamics:

1. Calculate the change in internal energy of a block of copper of mass 200 g

when it is heated from 25oC to 75oC. Take specific heat of copper = 0.1
cal/g/oC, and assume the change in volume as negligible. (Ans: 4200 J)

2. Calculate the change in internal energy when 5 g of air is heated from 0 to

4oC at constant volume. The specific heat of air at constant volume is
0.172cal/g/oC. (Ans: 14.4J)

3. A volume of 10 m3 of a liquid is supplied with 100 kcal of heat and expands

at a constant pressure of 10 atm to a final volume of 10.2 m3. Calculate the
work done and the change in internal energy. (Ans: 48 kcal, 52 kcal)
4. The volume of steam produced by 1g of water at 100 oC is 1650 cm3.
Calculate the change in internal energy during the change of state. Given,
amount of heat supplied = 540x4.2x10 7 erg, initial volume = 1cm3, pressure =
1atm = 76x13.6x1000 dyne /cm2. (Ans: 2.1x1010 erg)

CH : KINETIC THEORY OF GAS

Revision Test
Answer any Ten
1. At zero Kelvin, What happens to the kinetic energy of the gas?
2. With an example give the degrees of freedom f monoatomic, diatomic and triatomic gas?
3. Give an expression for rms value of velocity in terms of mass of the gas molecule.
4.Draw a graph between P vs 1/V curve.
5. If a given mass of gas occupies a volume of 10 cc at 1 atm pressure and temperature 100
degree C, what will be its volume at 4 atm pressure, the temperature being same?
6. If an ideal gas has volume V at 27 degree C and it is heated at a constant pressure, so that
its volume becomes 1.5 V, then the value of final temperature is ______
7. The rms speed of a group of 7 gas molecules having speed (6, 4,2, 0, -2, -4, -6) m/s is
_____
8. What is the relation between the kinetic energies of CO and N2 at the same temperature?
9. Define and write the formula for mean free path.
10. Define molar specific heat ratio. Give its value for monoatomic, diatomic gas.
11.Write the expression for pressure exerted by the gas.
12. Show that heat required to increase the temperature of 4 moles of a monoatomic ideal as
from 273 K to 473 K at constant volume is 1200R.

Explain Mean Free Path

Ans: The mean free path is the average distance a molecule travels between
collisions. It is represented by lambda (). The units of measurement are in
metres (m).
Q2. What variables affect the average kinetic energy of gas molecules?
Ans: The only factor directly proportional to average kinetic energy is absolute
temperature.
Q3. Explain what an ideal gas is.
Ans: An ideal gas is one that complies with the laws or characteristics listed
below.
1. A gas molecule has a size of zero.
2. Gas molecules do not have an attractive or repulsive force.
Real gas acts like an ideal gas at high temperatures and very low pressures.
Why?
Nine particles have speeds of 5, 8, 12, 12, 12, 14, 14, 17, and 20 m/s. Calculate
the following.
Show that the molar volume is 22.4 litres at standard temperature and
pressure (STP: 1 atmospheric pressure 0°C). One mole of any (ideal) gas
occupies one mole of space under these conditions.