The plot that depicts the behavior of the mean free time t (time between two successive collisions) for the molecules of an ideal gas, as a function of temperature (T), qualitatively, is: (Graphs are schematic and not drawn to scale)
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The plot that depicts the behavior of the mean free time t (time between two successive collisions) for the molecules of an ideal gas, as a function of temperature (T), qualitatively, is: (Graphs are schematic and not drawn to scale)
Nitrogen gas is at temperature. The temperature (in ) at which the speed of a molecule would be equal to the rms speed of a nitrogen molecule, is _____. (Molar mass of gas )
A bullet of mass , travelling with a speed of 210 strikes a fixed wooden target. One half of its kinetic energy is converted into heat in the bullet while the other half is converted into heat in the wood. The rise of temperature of the bullet if the specific heat of its material is (1 cal ergs) close to :
An engine operates by taking a monatomic ideal gas through the cycle shown in the figure. The percentage efficiency of the engine is close to ________.

Molecules of an ideal gas are known to have three translational degrees of freedom and two rotational degrees of freedom. The gas is maintained at a temperature of T. The total internal energy, U of a mole of this gas, and the value of given, respectively, by:
Two ideal Carnot engines operate in cascade (all heat given up by one engine is used by the other engine to produce work) between temperatures, and . The temperature of the hot reservoir of the first engine is and the temperature of the cold reservoir of the second engine is . T is temperature of the sink of first engine which is also the source for the second engine. How is T related to and , if both the engines perform equal amount of work ?
A thermodynamic cycle xyzx is shown on a V-T diagram.The P-V diagram that best describes this cycle is : (Diagrams are schematic and not to scale)

Under an adiabatic process, the volume of an ideal gas gets doubled. Consequently the mean collision time between the gas molecule changes from to . If for this gas then a good estimate for is given by :
A litre of dry air at STP expands adiabatically to a volume of 3 litres. If , the work done by air is : [Take air to be an ideal gas] [7-Jan-2020 Shift 1]
Match the thermodynamic processes taking place in a system with the correct conditions. In the table : is the heat supplied, is the work done and is change in internal energy of the system : Process Condition (I) Adiabatic (A) (II) Isothermal (B) (III) Isochoric (C) , (IV) Isobaric (D)

The specific heat of water and the latent heat of ice 100 grams of ice at is placed in of water at . The amount of ice that will melt as the temperature of water reaches is close to (in grams):
Three different processes that can occur in an ideal monoatomic gas are shown in the vs diagram. The paths are labelled as and The change ininternal energies during these process are taken as and and the workdone as and . The correct relation between these parametersare :

Two gases-argon (atomic radius 0.07 nm, atomic weight 40) and xenon (atomic radius 0.1 nm, atomic weight 140) have the same number density and are at the same temperature. The raito of their respective mean free times is closest to :
A heat engine is involved with exchange ofheat of and duringone cycle achieving an efficiency of . The value of is:
Two different wires having lengths and , and respective temperature coefficient of linear expansion and are joined end-to-end. Then the effective temperature coefficient of linear expansion is :
A closed vessel contains of a monoatomic ideal gas at 200 K. If 0.05 mole of the same gas at is added to it, the final equilibrium temperature (in ) of the gas in the vessel will be closed to ______.
Consider a gas of triatomic molecules. Themolecules are assumed to the triangular andmade of massless rigid rods whose vertices areoccupied by atoms. The internal energy of a mole of the gas at temperature is :

To raise the temperature of a certain mass of gas by at a constant pressure, 160 calories of heat is required. When the same mass of gas is cooled by at constant volume, 240 calories of heat is released. How many degrees of freedom does each molecule of this gas have (assume gas to be ideal)?
Match the ratio for ideal gases with different type of molecules: Molecular type (A) Monoatomic (I) (B) Diatomic rigidmolecules (II) (C) Diatomic non-rigidmolecules (III) (D) Triatomic rigidmolecules (IV)

A bakelite beaker has volume capacity of at . When it is partially filled with volume(at ) of mercury, it is found that the unfilledvolume of the beaker remains constant astemperature is varied. If and where is thecoefficient of volume expansion, then (in cc) is close to _____.
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