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Four molecules have speeds 200,400,600 and 800 m s-1. Calculate their root-mean-square speed cr.m.s .

Important Questions on Ideal Gases

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Calculate the root-mean square speed of the molecules of hydrogen at 20C given that each molecule of hydrogen has mass 3.35×10-27 kg.
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Show that, if the mean speed of the molecules in an ideal gas is doubled, the thermodynamic temperature of the gas increases by a factor of four.
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A fixed mass of gas expands to twice its original volume at a constant temperature. How do the pressure of the gas change?

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A fixed mass of gas expands to twice its original volume at a constant temperature. How do the following change? The mean translational kinetic energy of its molecules.

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Air consists of molecules of oxygen (molar mass =32 g mol-1 ) and nitrogen (molar mass =28 g mol-1 ). Calculate the mean translational
k.e. of these molecules in air at 20°C. Use your answer to calculate the root-mean-square speed of each type of molecule.
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Show that the change in the internal energy of one mole of an ideal gas per unit change in temperature is always a constant. What is this constant?
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Without looking at your textbook, make a list of the kinetic theory equations and write down what each term in the equations means.
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Write out a proof on your own of the main kinetic theory equation using momentum change and Newton's laws.