S'S iE rae ASSIGUMGNT No.{ 2. Asignment No. 12, due on 19-4-2012 Page | of 1 (1) Application of Young-Dupre equation: In a glass capillary of Imm diameter water rises 2.2 cm at 25 deq C. What is the difference between the interfacial tension between the glass-vapour and glass-liquid interface? (2) Most atoms or molecules have ionization potential in the UV range. If their polarizability can be modeled by considering the atom as a metallic sphere of radius equal to the Bohr radius, show that the strength of van der Walls interaction between these systems is of the order of Boltzmann constant *T. (3) A coin made of 10 gram crystalline copper is heated at 1083 deg C and melts. If the energy needed to melt copper is 2003 per grams, estimate the increase in the multiplicity of the state of cooper and express your answer in powers of 10. (4) In a volume V = 0.3 cubic meters is a number N = 10**24 (ten to the Power 24) of helium atoms initially at 400K. Keeping the volume fixed, the gas is heated to 403K. (a) By what numerical factor does the multiplicity of the state of helium change? (b) Starting from the initial situation, we could produce the same temperature change by compressing the gas adiabatically. ‘Then there is no change in the entropy and hence no change in the multiplicity. Explain why the multiplicity remains unchanged while the volume has decreased. eS _— AB bene eT asne ted ~toSevOo O68 ey gy kg T T™ ae @ 2 kf dee | po= kbs k ala) tg (hot) ete 2058//{\oars a0) RLAIaHeP oP Lege ray xu?