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Which statements are correct about degrees of freedom?

A. A molecule with n degrees of freedom has n2 different ways of storing energy.

B. Each degree of freedom is associated with 12RT average energy per mole.

C. A monoatomic gas molecule has 1 rotational degree of freedom where as diatomic molecule has 2 rotational degrees of freedom

D. CH4 has a total to 6 degrees of freedom.

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Important Questions on Kinetic Theory of Gases

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Given below are two statements:

Statement I :The average momentum of a molecule in a sample of an ideal gas depends on temperature.

Statement II : The rms speed of oxygen molecules in a gas is v. If the temperature is doubled and the oxygen molecules dissociate into oxygen atoms, the rms speed will become 2v.

In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :

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A vessel contains 14 g of nitrogen gas at a temperature of 27°C. The amount of heat to be transferred to the gas to double the r.m.s. speed of its molecules will be : (Take R=8.32 J mol-1k-1)
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The root mean square speed of smoke particles of mass 5×10-17 kg in their Brownian motion in air at NTP is approximately.

[Given k=1.38×10-23J K-1]

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Given below are two statements:
Statement I: The temperature of a gas is -73 °C. When the gas is heated to 527 °C, the root mean square speed of the molecules is doubled.
Statement II : The product of pressure and volume of an ideal gas will be equal to translational kinetic energy of the molecules.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
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At 300 K, the rms speed of oxygen molecules is α+5α times to that of its average speed in the gas. Then, the value of α will be (use π=227)
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A flask contains hydrogen and oxygen in the ratio of 2 : 1 by mass at temperature 27 °C. The ratio of average kinetic energy per molecule of hydrogen and oxygen respectively is :
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The average kinetic energy of a molecule of the gas is