EMT 181 PHYSICS FOR ELECTRONICS

COURSE ASSIGNMENT
INSTRUCTION:
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Answer neatly on A4 sheets only

Sketch diagrams wherever relevant
Answer all the questions INDEPENDENTLY
On the top of your answer sheet, write your name & matrix
number
5. Submit your answer sheets in WEEK 10
QUESTIONS:
1. What do you understand by microscopic and macroscopic viewpoint?
2. What is a thermodynamic system?
3. What is the difference between a closed system and an open
system?
4. Distinguish between the terms change of state, path and
process.
5. Explain what you understand by thermodynamic equilibrium.
6. What is the zeroth law of thermodynamics.
7. Define thermometric properties.
8. What is a fixed point?
9. What is the standard fixed point in thermometery? Define it.
10. Why a gas is is chosen as the standard thermometric substance?
11. What is an ideal gas?
12. What is a constant volume gas thermometer? Why is it preferred to
a constant pressure gas thermometer?
13. What do you understand on the average linear expansion? What are
the parameters involved?
14. Relate between the average linear expansion and the average
volume expansion.
15. What is the difference between heat transfer and work transfer?
16. Does heat transfer inevitably cause a temperature rise? Justify.
17. What is heat transfer? What are its positive and negative directions?
18. State the first law for a closed system undergoing a cycle.
19. State the first law for a closed system undergoing a change of state.
20. Show that energy is a property of a system.
21. Define internal energy. How is energy stored in molecules and
atoms?
22. What is the difference between heat and internal energy?
23. Define the specific heats at constant volume and constant pressure.
24. Why should specific heat not be defined in terms of heat transfer?

25. Which property of a system increases when heat is transferred? a)

at constant volume, b) at constant pressure?
26. What do you understand of latent heat?
27. What is displacement work?
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28. Under what conditions is the work done equal to

Prepared by,
DR SYARIFAH NORFAEZAH

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