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Free expansion is the expansion of a gas in vacuum. 1 L of an ideal gas expands isothermally into vacuum until its total volume is 5 L. Calculate the work done and the change in internal energy of the process.

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Important Questions on Thermodynamics

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The entropy change associated with the conversion of 1 kg of ice at 273 K to water vapours at 383 K is:

(Specific heat of water liquid and water vapour are 4.2 kJ K- and 2.0 kJ K-1kg-1 ; heat of liquid fusion and vaporization of water are 334 kJ kg-1 and 2491 kJ kg-1 , respectively). ( log 273=2.436,log373=2.572,log383=2.583 )
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"Heat cannot be itself flow from a body at lower temperature to a body at higher temperature". This statement corresponds to
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One mole of an ideal gas at 300 K in thermal contact with its surroundings expands isothermally from 1.0 L to 2.0 L against a constant pressure of 3.0 atm. In this process, the change in entropy of the surroundings Ssurr in J K-1 is:

1 L atm = 101.3 J
MEDIUM
For which of the following processes, S is negative?
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For a sample of perfect gas, when its pressure is changed isothermally from pi to pf, the entropy change is given by
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An engine operating between the boiling and freezing points of water will have

A. Efficiency more than 27%.

B. Efficiency less than the efficiency of a Carnot engine operating between the same two temperatures.

C. Efficiency equal to 27%.

D. Efficiency less than 27%.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

HARD

What will be the ΔH° and ΔS° values for the given cell having at 20°C and 30°C to be 0.18 V and 0.28 V respectively?

The cell: (Pt) H2/H+//KCl/Hg2Cl2/Hg (Given: 1 F=96500 Coulombs)

MEDIUM
Standard entropies of X2,Y2 and XY3 are 60,40 and 50 J/K/mol respectively. At what temperature the following reaction will be at equilibrium
MEDIUM
The entropy change in the isothermal reversible expansion of 2 moles of an ideal gas from 10 to 100 at 300 K is
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Two ideal Carnot engines operate in a cascade (all heat given up by one engine is used by the other engine to produce work) between temperatures, T1 and T2 . The temperature of the hot reservoir of the first engine is T1 and the temperature of the cold reservoir of the second engine is T2. T is the temperature of the sink of the first engine which is also the source for the second engine. How is T related to T1 and T2, if both the engines perform an equal amount of work?
EASY
The latent heat of melting of ice at 0°C is 6 kJ mol-1 . The entropy change during the melting in J K-1 mol-1 is closets to-
MEDIUM
For the process H2O lH2Og  at T=100oC  and 1 atmosphere pressure, the correct choice is-
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For the reaction, 2ClgCl2g, the correct option is
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No process is possible whose sole result is the transfer of heat from a colder object to a hotter object. This is Clausius statement for
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For the following reaction

Fe2O3s+3COg2Fes+3CO2g ΔH°=-29.8 kJ and ΔS°=15 JK-1. What is the value of ΔStotal at 298 K?

MEDIUM
Consider the following liquid - vapour equilibrium.

LiquidVapour

Which of the following relations is correct?