Dej/Wondirad Senior Secondary School: Physics Worksheet One for Grade 12

Solve the following problems.

1. A cylinder contains 3 moles of monatomic ideal gas at constant pressure 2x105 pa. A gas
compressed from 0.09m3 to 0.04m3.then
a) What is the work done on the gas?
b) What is the internal energy of the gas?
c) How much heat energy flows in to the gas?
2. Suppose the volume increase from 0.1m3 to 0.4m3 and the pressure varies linearly from 2x106pa to
7x106pa. How much work does the gas do?
3. A basketball at 27oc holds 0.5mol of air molecules. What is the internal energy of the air in the
ball?
4. What volume will 12g of oxygen gas occupy at 270c and at standard pressure?
5. The maximum theoretical efficiency of a certain engine is 45%. If this engine uses the atmosphere
which has a temperature of 1270c as its cold reservoir, what is the temperature of its hot reservoir?
6. A gas starts with 200J of internal energy. While you add 180J of heat to the gas, the gas does 70J
of work. What is the final internal energy of the gas?
7. An ideal gas at 270c is compressed adiabatically to 8/27 of its original volume. If ϒ=5/3 then what
is rise temperature?
8. A gas at atmospheric pressure is suddenly compressed adiabatically to one-fourth of its original
volume. If ϒ=3/2, what is the final pressure?
9. A Carnot engine takes 300cal of heat at 500k and rejects 150cal of heat to the sink. So, what is the
temperature of sink?
10. A 40 cm3 of ideal gas at 270c and 200kpa compressed to 10cm3.what is the new pressure?
11. Gas is contained in a10L vessel at a temperature 400c and a pressure of 12atm. What is the number
of moles of gas in the vessel?
12. Determine the volume of one mole of the gas at STP?
13. The density of a certain nitrogen gas of a pressure of 2atmis 2.5 kg/m3.what is the root mean
square speed?
14. While 40J of work are done on a gas the internal energy does down by 150J.What was the value of
the heat added to the gas?
15. Calculate the increase in internal energy of a 2gm of hydrogen gas as a result its isobaric heating
by 20k.Take the specific heat capacity of hydrogen at a constant pressure to be 14J/g k.

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16. A gas at 270c and an absolute pressure of 800kpa is suddenly expanded into a chamber having 15
times the volume. Its new temperature is -30c. What is the new pressure?
17. Suppose a 5g helium gas is heated from -200c to 270c. Find the work done on the surrounding,
when the process is isobaric. (Cp=1.25J/g k and Cv=0.75J/g k).
18. A gas compressed at a constant pressure of 50 Pa from a volume of 10m3 to a volume of
4m3.Energy of 100J is add to the gas by heating. Its internal energy is
19. The mass of an ideal gas filled a closed container of V at a pressure P and absolute temperature T.
an additional mass is now introduced in the container and the volume is reduced V/3 and
temperature to T/3. The new pressure will be:
20. A refrigerator which has a coefficient of performance one-third that of a Carnot refrigerator is
operated between two reservoirs at temperature of 250k and 350k.It absorbs 500J from the low
temperature reservoir. How much heat is rejected at the high temperature reservoir?
21. Gas in a container is at a pressure of 1.5atm and the volume of 2m3 .what is work done
a. If it expands at a constant pressure twice its initial volume
b. If it is compressed at a constant pressure to one quarter of its initial volume
22. Show that U=3/2NKT, where N is number of particles.
23. Show that the heat added to n moles of an ideal gas at constant pressure is greater than added at
constant volume for the same temperature change
24. Carnot engine is operating b/n two heat reservoirs at temperature of 400k and 300k.
a. If the engine receives 4000J of heat energy from the reservoirs at 400Kin each cycle, how
many joules per second does it reject to the reservoir at 300k?
b. How much mechanical work does the engine perform during each cycle?
c. What is the thermal efficiency of the engine?

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