HEAT AND TEMPERATURE

specific latent heat of vaporization

Heat that must be supplied to change 1 kg of liquid at its boiling point from liquid phase to vapour
phase is called the specific latent heat of vaporization of that liquid.
( The specific latent heat of vaporization of water is 540 cal g-1 or 2.26 x 106 J kg-1 )
An ideal gas would have the following properties:

1 The molecules have negligible size.

2 The molecules are identical.

3 All collisions are perfectly elastic and the time of a collision is

significantly smaller than the time between collisions.

4 The molecules exert no forces on each other. except during collisions.

5 There are enough molecules so that statistics can be applied.

6 The motion of the molecules is random.

Assuming an ideal gas. we can combine the three gas laws to produce a single equation relating the

pressure, volume. temperature and amount of a gas:

PV = NkT

average KE of a molecule =
Internal energy

Internal energy of ideal gas = translational KE of particles

Internal energy of real gas = translational KE + rotational KE + vibrational KE + molecular PE

Root mean square speed ( rms speed )