Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
Give an example of some familiar process in which heat is added to an object, without changing its temperature.
Advertisements
Solution
- Melting of ice
- Boiling of water.
APPEARS IN
RELATED QUESTIONS
Answer in brief.
Why should a Carnot cycle have two isothermal two adiabatic processes?
An ideal gas is taken through an isothermal process. If it does 2000 J of work on its environment, how much heat is added to it?
Draw a p-V diagram of the reversible process.
Draw a p-V diagram of the irreversible process.
Draw a p-V diagram showing positive work at constant pressure.
Differentiate between the reversible and irreversible processes.
Explain the thermodynamics of the isochoric process.
When food is cooked in a vessel by keeping the lid closed, after some time the steam pushes the lid outward. By considering the steam as a thermodynamic system, then in the cooking process
In an isochoric process, we have ____________.
Apply first law for an adiabatic process.
Draw the PV diagram for the isothermal process.
What is a cyclic process?
What is meant by a reversible and irreversible processes?
Derive the work done in an isothermal process.
Derive the work done in an adiabatic process.
Explain in detail the isochoric process.
What are the limitations of the first law of thermodynamics?
An ideal gas is taken in a cyclic process as shown in the figure. Calculate
- work done by the gas
- work done on the gas
- Net work done in the process

An ideal gas is expanded isothermally from volume V1 to volume V2 and then compressed adiabatically to original volume V1. If the initial pressure is P1, the final pressure is P3 and net work done is W, then ____________.
An ideal gas is made to go from a state A to stale B in the given two different ways (see figure) (i) an isobaric and then an isochoric process and (ii) an isochoric and then an isobaric process. The work done by gas in the two processes are W1 and W2 respectively. Then,

One mole of an ideal gas with `gamma` = 1.4 is adiabatically compressed so that its temperature rises from 27° C to 47° C. The change in the internal energy of the gas is (R = 8.3 J/mol.K) ____________.
Ideal gas for which 'ϒ' = 1.5 is suddenly compressed to `1/4`th of its initial volume. The ratio of 4 the final pressure to the initial pressure is ______.
`(ϒ = "C"_"p"/"C"_"v")`
Give any two types of a thermodynamic process.
When an inflated ballon is suddenly burst, why is the emerging air slightly cooled?
An ideal gas is taken through a cyclic process ABCDA as shown in figure. The net work done by the gas during the cycle is ______.

Explain how can a gas be expanded at constant temperature.
