Lecture 3 - Summer 2023-24
Lecture 3 - Summer 2023-24
• Lecture 3: Avogadro number, ideal gas concept, work done by an ideal gas and
related problems. Quiz 1 (on chapter 18) for 30 minutes.
• Lecture 4: Pressure, temperature and rms speed, translational kinetic energy and
related problems, degrees of freedom, Internal energy of monoatomic gas.
• Lecture 5: Molar specific heat at constant volume for an ideal gas, molar specific
heat at constant pressure for an ideal gas, relation between Cp and CV , related
problems.
• Lecture 6: Quiz 2 (on Lecture 1, 2 and 3). Adiabatic expansion of an ideal gas and
related problems. Topic distribution and submission date announcement for the
assignment.
Lecture 3
19-1 Avogadro’s number, NA :
It is experimentally found that, one mole of a substance contains NA (Avogadro’s
number) elementary units (usually atoms or molecules).
• 1 mole of a substance contains, NA = 6.023 x 1023 elementary units
• 1 mole of He contains, NA = 6.023 x 1023 atoms
n mole of He contains total number of atoms, N = nNA atoms
• 1 mole of O2 contains, NA= 6.023 x 1023 molecules
n mole of O2 contains, total number of molecules, N = nNA molecules
• One molar mass M of any substance is the mass of one mole of the substance.
1 molar mass, M = mNA where m is the mass of 1 atom or molecule
n molar mass (sample mass), Msam = mN= m(nNA) = n(mNA) = nM
• Number of moles,
n= =
• The general expression for the work done during any change in volume
of any gas: W.
From the ideal gas law we define the pressure as and putting it in the
general expression we get
W
Work done by an ideal gas at constant temperature:
The general expression, that we have learnt, for work done for an ideal gas at
constant temperature:
Some findings:
Solution:
(a) piVi = nRTi ------------------(1)
106.24 mol
(b) As we have got negative amount of heat, the heat is transferred from the gas.
Problems for Practice