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Two solid blocks at temperatures T1 and T2T1<T2 are put in thermal contact for a long time inside an insulated container. Choose the correct statement(s).

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Important Questions on Thermodynamics

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Graphs below show the entropy versus energy U of two systems 1 and 2 at constant volume. The initial energies of the systems are indicated by U1, i and U2, i , respectively. Graphs are drawn to the same scale. The systems are then brought into thermal contact with each other. Assume that, at all times the combined energy of the two systems remains constant. Choose the most appropriate option indicating the energies of the two systems and the total entropy after they achieve the equilibrium.

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One mole of an ideal monatomic gas undergoes the following four reversible processes:
Step 1 : It is first compressed adiabatically from volume V1 to 1 m2.
Step 2 : then expanded isothermally to volume 10 m3
Step 3 : then expanded adiabatically to volume V3
Step 4 : then compressed isothermally to volume V1. If the efficiency of the above cycle is 34 then V1 is
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What will be the efficiency of a Carnot engine if it takes heat from reservoir, at 100°C and rejects heat to a sink at, 50°C ?
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For which of the following processes, entropy change is zero?
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An engine operating between the boiling and freezing points of water will have

A. Efficiency more than 27%.

B. Efficiency less than the efficiency of a Carnot engine operating between the same two temperatures.

C. Efficiency equal to 27%.

D. Efficiency less than 27%.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

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The carnot heat engine have an efficiency of 50%. The temperature of sink is maintained at 500 K. To increase the efficiency upto 80%, the increment in the source temperature is
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An ice cube of mass 30 g at 00C is left sitting on the kitchen table where it gradually melts and reaches the kitchen temperature of 250C. The latent heat of fusion for ice is 333 J·g-1 and the specific heat of water is 4.2 J·g-1·K-1. Select the correct statement(s) about this process. (All numerical values in the answers are rounded to the closest integer.)
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A solid body of constant heat capacity 1 J -1 is being heated by keeping it in contact with reservoirs in two ways: (i) Sequentially keeping in contact with 2 reservoirs such that each reservoir supplies the same amount of heat. (ii) Sequentially keeping in contact with 8 reservoirs such that each reservoir supplies the same amount of heat. In both, cases the body is brought from initial temperature 100 K to final temperature 200 K . Entropy change of the body in the two cases respectively is: Note: This question was awarded as a bonus since temperatures were given in centigrade instead of in Kelvin. Proper corrections are made in the question to avoid it.
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By leaving the door of a small standard domestic refrigerator open, it is not possible to cool a room, because it violates the ______
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Consider a two stage Carnot engine. In the first stage heat Q1 is absorbed at temperature T and heat Q2 is expelled at temperature αT (where α<1). In the second stage heat Q2 is absorbed at temperature αT and heat Q3 is expelled at temperature βT(β<α). The efficiency of the Carnot engine will be
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Which of the following statements is true? The entropy of the universe
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The change in entropy when a 30 g ice cube at -12°C is transformed into water at 100°C (in J/K) is

(Take n273261=0.04; n373273=0.312Sice=2100 J/kg-C,Swater=4200 J/kg-C, Lf=3.33×105 J/kg

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Work done by an engine is (Q1+Q2) J when a heat engine absorbs Q1heat at T1 temperature and Q2 heat at T2 temperature.  This data:

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The second law of thermodynamics implies that :
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Consider a cycle followed by an engine.
1 to 2 is isothermal
2 to 3 is adiabatic
3 to 1 is adiabatic

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Such a process does not exist because 

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The law of thermodynamics which leads to the conclusion that it is impossible to convert 'all' the heat extracted from a hot source into work is :
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The wavelength associated with the electron will be
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Give the alternative statement of second law of thermodynamics?
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Second law of thermodynamics is equivalent to which of the following statements?