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Assertion: Specific heat of gas at constant pressure is greater than its specific heat at constant volume.

Reason: At constant pressure, some heat is spent in expansion of the gas.

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Important Questions on Thermodynamics

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Two moles of an ideal gas, with CPCV=53, are mixed with three moles of another ideal gas CPCV=43. The value of CPCV for the mixture is
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A cylinder with fixed capacity of 67.2 litre contains helium gas at STP. The amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of the gas by 20°C is:
[Given that R=8.31 J mol-1 K-1]
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Consider a mixture of n moles of helium gas and 2n moles of oxygen gas (molecules taken to be rigid) as an ideal gas. Its CPCV value will be:
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For the given cyclic process CAB as shown for a gas, the work done is:

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Cp-Cv=RM and Cv are specific heats at constant pressure and constant volume respectively. It is observed that, Cp-Cv=a for hydrogen gas and Cp-Cv=b for nitrogen gas. The correct relation between a and b is:
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One mole of O2 gas is heated at constant pressure starting at 27°C. How much energy must be added to the gas as heat to double its volume?
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The specific heats, Cp and Cv of a gas of diatomic molecules, A, are given (in units of J mol-1 K-1 ) by 29 and 22, respectively. Another gas of diatomic molecules, B, has the corresponding values 30 and 21. If they are treated as ideal gases, then:
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One gram mole of an ideal gas A with the ratio of constant pressure and constant volume specific heats γA=53 is mixed with n gram moles of another ideal gas B with γB=75. If the γ for the mixture is 1913, then what will be the value of n?
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For a rigid diatomic molecule, the universal gas constant R=nCP, where, CP is the molar specific heat at constant pressure and n is a number. Hence, n is equal to
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An ideal gas has molecules with 5 degrees of freedom. The ratio of specific heats at constant pressure Cp and at constant volume CV is:
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The values of Cp and Cv for a diatomic gas are respectively (R=g a s constant)
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For a diatomic ideal gas in a closed system, which of the following plots does not correctly describe the relation between various thermodynamic quantities?
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What will be the molar specific heat at constant volume of an ideal gas consisting of rigid diatomic molecules?

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Consider two ideal diatomic gases A and B at some temperature T . Molecules of the gas A are rigid, and have a mass m . Molecules of the gas B have an additional vibrational mode and have a mass m4 . The ratio of the specific heats CV Aand  CVB of gas A and B, respectively is:
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One mole of a monoatomic ideal gas undergoes a quasistatic process, which is depicted by a straight line joining points V0,T0 and 2V0,3T0 in a V-T diagram. What is the value of the heat capacity of the gas at the point V0,T0?
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The correct relation between the degrees of freedom f and the ratio of specific heat γ is:
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The ratio of CpCv for a diatomic gas is
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When heat Q is supplied to a diatomic gas of rigid molecules, at constant volume its temperature increases by  T . The heat required to produce the same change in temperature, at a constant pressure is:
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4.0g of a gas occupies 22.4 liters at NTP. The specific heat capacity of the gas at constant volume is 5.0 J K-1 mol-1 . If the speed of sound in this gas at NTP is 952 m s-1 , then the heat capacity at constant pressure is

(Take gas constant R=8.3 J K-1 mol-1 )
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n moles of an ideal gas with constant volume heat capacity Cv undergo an isobaric expansion by certain volume. The ratio of the work done in the process, to the heat supplied is: