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ELEMENTARY PHYSICS IA (FI-1101) TUTORIAL MODULE 8

Semester 1 Year 2022-2023
TOPIC : KINETIC THEORY OF GASES
Use g = 9,8 m/s2
A. QUESTIONS
1. A gas is compressed at a constant temperature. What happens to the mean free path of the molecules in this process?

2. One container is filled with helium gas and another with argon gas. If both containers are at the same temperature,
which molecules have the higher rms speed? Explain!

3. When alcohol is rubbed on your body, it lowers your skin temperature. Explain this effect!

4. What happens to a helium-filled balloon released into the air? Will it expand or contract? Will it stop rising at some
height?

5. A vessel is filled with gas at some equilibrium pressure and temperature. Can all gas molecules in the vessel have
the same speed?

B. PROBLEMS

1. A small electric immersion heater is used to heat 100 g of water for a cup of instant coffee. The heater is labelled
“200 watts” (it converts electrical energy to thermal energy at this rate). Calculate the time required to bring all this
water from 23℃ to 100℃, ignoring any heat losses.

2. Berapa What mass of butter, which has a usable energy content of 6.0 Cal/g (=6000 cal/g), would be equivalent to
the change in gravitational potential energy of a 73.0 kg man who ascends from sea level to the top of Mt.
Everest, at elevation 8.84 km? Assume that the average g for the ascent is 9.80 m/s2.

3. A 0.400 kg sample is placed in a cooling apparatus that removes energy as heat at

a constant rate. Figure 1 gives the temperature T of the sample versus time t; the
horizontal scale is set by ts = 80.0 min. The sample freezes during the energy
removal. The specific heat of the sample in its initial liquid phase is 3000 J/kg K.
What are (a) the sample’s heat of fusion and (b) its specific heat in the frozen
phase?

4. A hydrogen molecule (diameter 1.0 × 10−8 cm), traveling at the rms speed, escapes from a 4000 K furnace into a
chamber containing cold argon atoms (diameter 3.0 × 10−8 cm) at a density of 4.0 × 1019 atoms/cm3. (a) What is
the speed of the hydrogen molecule? (b) If it collides with an argon atom, what is the closest their centers can be,
considering each as spherical? (c) What is the initial number of collisions per second experienced by the hydrogen
molecule? (Hint: Assume that the argon atoms are stationary. Then the mean free path of the hydrogen molecule is
1
given by λ = πd2 N/V).

5. Find the mass in kilograms of 7.5 × 1024 atoms of arsenic, which has a molar mass of 74.9 g/mol.

6. Suppose 1.80 mol of an ideal gas is taken from a volume of 3.00 m 3 to a volume of 1.50 m3 via an isothermal
compression at 30℃. (a) How much energy is transferred as heat during the compression, and (b) is the transfer to
or from the gas?

7. An air bubble of volume 20 cm3 is at the bottom of a lake 40 m deep, where the temperature is 4.0℃ . The bubble
rises to the surface, which is at a temperature of 20℃.Take the temperature of the bubble’s air to be the same as
that of the surrounding water. Just as the bubble reaches the surface, what is its volume?

8. The temperature and pressure in the Sun’s atmosphere are 2.0 × 106 K and 0.0300 Pa. Calculate the rms speed of
free electrons (mass 9.11 × 10−31 kg) there, assuming they are an ideal gas.

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9. What is the average translational kinetic energy of nitrogen molecules at 1600 K?

10. When 1.0 mol of oxygen (O2) gas is heated at constant pressure starting at 0℃, how much energy must be added
to the gas as heat to double its volume? (The molecules rotate but do not oscillate.)

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