PHYSICS

CPP Kinetic Theory of Gas

SR-REVISION (JEE-MAINS 2024) ` KKP / MYP CEN TRE

Single Correct Answer Type:

1. A gaseous mixture consists of 16g of helium and 16g of oxygen. The ratio Cp / Cv of the mixture is:
(A) 1.62 (B) 2.12 (C) 1.96 (D) 2.67

2. Consider the lung capacity to be 500cm3 and the pressure thereing to be equivalent of 761 mm of Hg;
estimate the number of molecules per breath.
(A) 2.62  1018 (B) 1.06  1018 (C) 2  1019 (D) 1.19  1019

3. A certain mass of a gas was heated in a constant volume vessel; its P-T curve 3 is 1;
similarly another mass of the gas was heated in the same vessel; its P-T curve is 2. If
tan   2 tan  , what is the ratio of masses of gas in the two experiments?
1 2 2 6
(A) (B) (C) (D)
2 3 5 7

4. Figure shown a cylindrical tube of radius r and l, fitted with a cork. The friction
coefficient between the cork and the tube is  . The tube contains an ideal gas at
temperature T, and atmospheric pressure P0 . The tube is slowly heated; the cork
pipe out when temperature is doubled. What is normal force per unit length exerted by
the cork on the periphery of tube? Assume uniform temperature throughout gas any
instant.
P0 A P0 A
(A) (B)
4r 2r
P0 A P0 A
(C) (D)
2r r

5. Calculate the rms speed of nitrogen at STP (pressure = 1 atm an temperature = 0 C ). The density of
nitrogen in these conditions is 1.25kg / m3 .
(A) 283 m/s (B) 800 m/s (C) 490 m/s (D) 680 m/s

6. A barometer tube contains a mixture of air and saturated water vapour in the space above the mercury
column. It reads 70 cm when the actual atmospheric pressure is 76 cm of mercury. The saturation vapour
pressure at room temperature is 1.0 cm of mercury. The tube is now lowered in the reservoir till space
above the mercury column is reduced to half its original volume. Find the reading of the barometer. Assume
that the temperature remains constant.
(A) 65 cm (B) 70 cm (C) 82 cm (D) 87 cm

7. The temperature of an ideal gas consisting of rigid diatomic molecules is T  300K . Calculate the angular
root mean square velocity of a rotating molecules if its moment of inertial is equal to I  2.1 1039 g.cm2

(A) 6.99  1011 rad / s (B) 3.26  1012 rad / s

(C) 4.39  1011 rad / s (D) 6.3  1012 rad / s

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8. Calculate the pressure of Hydrogen in a cylinder of capacity 10 L given that the total kinetic energy of
translation is 7.5  103 J . What is the total kinetic energy of molecules in the cylinder?

(1 atm pressure = 105 N / m2 )

(A) 12,500 J (B) 8,960 J (C) 6210 J (D) 16,200 J

9. Find the number of Hydrogen molecules in 1 cm3 if the pressure is 200 mm Hg and the root mean square
velocity of hydrogen is 2400 m/s in these conditions.
(A) 3.92  1018 (B) 4.17  1018 (C) 6.16  1019 (D) 5.67  1019

10. What is the energy of the rotational motion of the molecules contained in 1 Kg of nitrogen at a temperature
of 7 C ?

(A) 6.2  10 4 J (B) 0.639  105 J (C) 8.3  104 J (D) 9.279  105 J

11. A vessel A with a capacity of V1  3 ℓt contains gas at a pressure of P1  2 atm and a vessel B with a
capacity of V2  4 ℓt contains the same gas at a pressure of 1 atm. The temperature is 0 C in A and
27 C in B. What will be the pressure in the vessels if they are connected by a tube?
(A) 1.43 atm (B) 1.92 atm (C) 2.16 atm (D) 2.92 atm

12. A vertical cylindrical tank 1m high has its top end closed by a tightly fitted frictionless piston of negligible
weight. The air inside the cylinder is at an absolute pressure of 1 atm. The piston is depressed by pouring
mercury on it very slowly. How far will the piston descend before mercury spills over the top of cylinder? The
temperature of the air inside the cylinder is maintained constant.
(A) 16 cm (B) 18 cm (C) 21 cm (D) 24 cm

13. A vessel containing 1 gm of oxygen at a pressure of 10 atm and a temperature of 47 C . It is found that
because of a leak, the pressure drops to 5/8 th of its original value and the temperature falls to 27 C . Find
the volume of the vessel.
(A) 0.082 L (B) 0.07 L (C) 0.018 L (D) 0.03 L

14. A bulb A of 500cm3 is joined by a narrow tube of another bulb B of 250 cm3 and the whole system is initially
filled with air at S.T.P. and sealed. If the temperature of the bulb A is now raised to 100 C and that of B is
kept constant, find:
(a) the new pressure in the system
(b) mass of air which is transferred from one bulb to another during heating
(density of air at S.T.P. = 1.29 g/l)
(A) a) 1.22 atm (B) a) 1.22 atm (C) a) 2.16 atm (D) a) 2.16 atm
b) 0.9291 g b) 0.0709 g b) 0.9291 g b) 0.0709 g

15. A thin tube sealed at both ends, is 100 cm long. It lies horizontally, the middle 0.1 m containing mercury and
the two ends containing air at standard atmospheric pressure. If the tube is turned to a vertical position, by
what amount will the mercury be displaced?
(A) 1.2 cm (B) 1.45 cm (C) 2.42 cm (D) 2.95 cm

16. What will be the ratio of number of a mono atomic and diatomic gas in a vessel, if the ratio of their partial
pressures is 5:3?
(A) 5:1 (B) 3:1 (C) 5:3 (D) 3:5

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17. An ideal gas is found to obey an additional law VP2  cons tan t . The gas is initially at temperature T and
volume V. When it expands to 2V, the temperature becomes
T
(A) (B) 2T (C) 2T 2 (D) 4T
2

18. N(<100) molecules of gas have velocities 1, 2, 3.....N km/s respectively. Then the ratio of rms speed and
average speed is
 2N  1N  1  2N  1N  1 2N  1
(A) 1 (B) (C) (D) 2
6N 6 6 N  1

19. 1
Fig shows a parabolic graph T and for a mixture of a gas
V
undergoing an adiabatic process. What is the ratio of Vr ms of
molecules and speed of sound in mixture is?
3
(A) (B) 2
2
2
(C) (D) 3
3

20. The maximum attainable temperature of ideal gas in the process P  P0  V 2 , where P0 and  are +ve
constants
1/ 2 1/ 2 1/ 2 1/ 2
2P0  P0  P0  2P0  2nR  2P0  2P0  P0 
(A)   (B)   (C)   (D)  
3nR  3  2nR  3  P0  3  nR  2 

Numerical based:

21. Both limbs of a 'U' tube are of equal length. One of the limbs is sealed and the tube contains a column of 28
cm of air at atmospheric pressure. The air is separated from the atmosphere by mercury. Height of air in the
sealed limb, will be approximately 3  x centimetre if the other limb is now filled to the top with mercury
Atmospheric pressure is 76 cm of mercury. Value of ‘x’ is?

22. The diameter of a gas bubble formed at the bottom of a pond is d  4.0 m . When the bubble rises to the
surface its diameter increases to n = 1.1 times. Depth of pond is ‘x’ meter. The nearest integer to ‘x’ is
(The atmospheric pressure is taken 10 m of water column, the gas expansion is assumed to be isothermal)

23. The average degrees of freedom per molecule of a gas are 6. The gas performs 25 J of work in a process
when it is expanded at constant pressure. Amount of heat absorbed by the gas is 25  x . Value of ‘x’ is

24. An ideal gas which undergoes through a process V  aT 2 ; starting at T0 and ends at 2T0 . ‘a’ is a constant.
n
The molar heat capacity of the gas if it is monoatomic is R ; What is n?
2

25.  
Calculate the pressure in 105 N / m2 exerted by a mixture of 8 g of oxygen, 14 g of nitrogen, and 22 g of
carbon dioxide in a container of 30 litres at a temperature of 27 C .

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26. In a cubical vessel are enclosed n molecules of a gas each having a mass m and an average speed v. If 
nmv 2
is the length of each edge of the cube, the pressure exerted by the gas will be , what is the value of
x
‘x’

27. The number of degrees of freedom for each atom of a monatomic gas is

28. The mean kinetic energy of a perfect gas monatomic gas molecule at the temperature T K is xkT the value
of ‘x’ is

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29. A gas at absolute temperature 300 K has pressure = 4 x 10 N/m . Boltzmann constant = k = 1.38 x 10
3
J/K. The number of molecules per cm is of the order of 10 x , then the value of ‘x’ is

30. The root-mean-square (rms) speed of oxygen molecules (O2) at a certain absolute temperature is v. If the
temperature is doubled and the oxygen gas dissociates into atomic oxygen, the rms speed would be
xv ,then the value of ‘x’ is

KEY

1. A 2. D 3. A 4. B 5. C

6. A 7. D 8. A 9. B 10. C

11. A 12. D 13. A 14. B 15. D

16. C 17. A 18. D 19. B 20. A

21. 7 22. 3 23. 4 24. 7 25. 3

26. 1 27. 3 28. 2 29. 5 30. 1

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