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The magnitude of reversible work done by an ideal gas in four different processes: isothermal expansion, adiabatic expansion, constant pressure expansion, and free expansion are Wi, Wa, Wp, and Wf respectively. Choose the right order of sequence for the magnitude of the work done. (Change in the volume is same for all the processes.)

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Important Questions on Thermodynamics

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An ideal gas undergoes isothermal compression from 5 m3 to 1 m3 against a constant external pressure of 4 N m-2. The heat released in this process is 24 J mol-1K-1 and is used to increase the pressure of 1 mole of Al. The temperature of Al increases by:
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An ideal gas expands adiabatically against vacuum. Which of the following is correct for the given process?
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An ideal gas initially at temperature, pressure and volume, 27°C,1.00 bar and 10 L respectively is heated at constant volume until pressure is 10.0 bar, it then undergoes a reversible isothermal expansion until pressure is 1.00bar, what is the total work W, during this process?
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Five moles of an ideal gas at 293 K is expanded isothermally from an initial pressure of 2.1 MPa to 1.3 MPa against at constant external pressure 4.3 MPa. The heat transferred in this process is ___ kJmol-1. (Rounded-off to the nearest integer)

[ Use R=8.314 J mol-1 K-1]

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Consider the reversible isothermal expansion of an ideal gas in a closed system at two different temperatures T1 and T2T1<T2 . The correct graphical depiction of the dependence of work done w vs the final volume V is:
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A thermodynamic cycle in the pressure P-volume V plane is given below:
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AB and CD are isothermal processes while BC and DA are adiabatic processes. The same cycle in the temperature T- entropy S plane is :
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During the free expansion of an ideal gas in an isolated chamber,
 
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For water at 100°C and 1 bar,
Δvap H-Δvap U=¯×102 J mol-1
(Round off to the Nearest Integer)
[Use : R=8.31 J mol-1 K-1
[Assume volume of H2O(l) is much smaller than volume of H2O(g). Assume H2O(g) treated as an ideal gas]
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If 100 mole of H2O2 decompose at 1 bar and 300 K, the work is done (kJ) by one mole of O2(g) as it expands against 1 bar pressure is:

2H2O2l2H2Ol+O2(g)

R=8.3 J K-1 mol-1
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The magnitude of work done by a gas that undergoes a reversible expansion along the path ABC shown in the figure is _________.
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A system consisting of 1 mol of an ideal gas undergoes a reversible process, ABCA (schematically indicated in the figure below). If the temperature at the starting point A is 300 K and the work done in the process BC is 1 L atm, the heat exchanged in the entire process in L atm is

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An ideal gas undergoes isothermal expansion at constant pressure. During the process:
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Three mole of an ideal gas expand isothermally and reversibly from 10 m3 to 20 m3 at 300 K, calculate the work done? R=8.314 J K-1 mol-1
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An ideal gas undergoes a cyclic process as shown in the figure
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UBC=-5KJmol-1,qAB=2KJmol-1

WAB=-5KJmol-1,WCA=3KJmol-1 

Heat absorbed by the system during process CA is
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At 25°C,50 g of iron reacts with HCl to form FeCl2. The evolved hydrogen gas expands against a constant pressure of 1 bar. The work done by the gas during this expansion is -_______ J.

(Round off to the Nearest Integer)

[Given : R=8.314 J mol-1 K-1. Assume, hydrogen is an ideal gas]

[Atomic mass off Fe is 55.85 u]

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Which of the following p-V curve represents maximum work done?
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When an ideal gas expands isothermally from 5 m3 to 10 m3 at 25°C against a constant pressure of 107 N·m-2, then the work done on the gas is
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Under the isothermal condition, a gas at 300 K expands from 0.1 L to 0.25 L against a constant external pressure of 2 bar. The work done by the gas is

(Given that 1 L bar=100 J)

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The volume vs. temperature graph of 1 mole of an ideal gas is given below

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The pressure of the gas (in atm) at X, Y and Z, respectively, are
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The combination of plots which does not represent isothermal expansion of an ideal gas is

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