
Assertion: An ideal gas is enclosed within a container fitted with a piston. When volume of this enclosed gas is increased at constant temperature, the pressure exerted by the gas on the piston decreases.
Reason: In the above situation, the rate of molecules striking the piston decreases. If the rate ạt which molecules of a gas having same average speed striking a given area of the wall decreases, the pressure exerted by gas on the wall decreases.


Important Questions on Kinetic Theory of Gases
Assertion: Different gases at the same conditions of temperature and pressure have same root mean square speed.
Reason: Average K.E. of gas is inversely proportional to temperature in Kelvin.

Assertion: The root mean square velocity of molecules of a gas having Maxwellian distribution of velocities is higher than their most probable velocity at any temperature.
Reason: A very small number of molecules of a gas possessing very large velocities increases the root mean square velocity without affecting the most probable velocity.

Assertion: Two different gases having same temperature always have molecules with same RMS
speed.
Reason: The average translational kinetic energy per mole for each gas is (where, Boltzmann constant, temperature in Kelvin).

Assertion: The pressure of a gas filled in a cylinder fitted with an immovable piston is increased by raising its temperature.
Reason: On raising the temperature, greater momentum is transferred to the wall of the container per second.

Assertion: It is possible for both the pressure and volume of a monoatomic ideal gas of a given amount to change simultaneously without causing the internal energy of the gas to change.
Reason: The internal energy of an ideal gas of a given amount remains constant if temperature does not change. It is possible to have a process in which pressure and volume are changed such that temperature remains constant.

Assertion: Equal moles of helium and oxygen gases are given equal quantities of heat at constant volume. There will be a greater rise in the temperature of helium as compared to that of oxygen.
Reason: The molecular weight of oxygen is more than the molecular weight of helium.

One mole of an ideal gas goes from an initial state to final state via two processes. It first undergoes isothermal expansion from volume to and then its volume is reduced from to at constant pressure. The correct diagram representing the two processes is:

In the given diagram, what is the relation between pressure and ?
