Alphonsa arts & Science college

B.SC. PROGRAMME IN PHYSICS

I Semester B.Sc Degree Examination September 2015
Complimentary Course PHI C 01: Properties of matter & Thermodynamics
Time: 2 hours

Total Marks: 50

Section A
(Answer all questions. Each question carries 1 mark)
1. The change in internal energy of a gas is directly proportional to :
(a) Change in volume.
(b) Change in pressure.
(c) Change in temperature.
(d) None of this.
2. What is the efficiency of a Carnots engine working between the steam point and ice point?
(a) 100% (b) 27% (c) 63%
3. An indicator diagram is a graph between ---------------------.
4. The area under PV diagram gives -----------------------.
(4x1 =4 marks)
Section B
(Answer all questions. Each question carries 2 marks. Answer in one or two sentences)
5. State the first law of thermo dynamics.
6. What is a quasi static process?
7. Give three examples of thermodynamic systems
(3x2 =6 marks)
Section C
(Answer any 3 questions. Each question carries 4 marks. Answer in one paragraph)
8. State the second law of thermodynamics.
9. What is a cyclic process? Calculate the work done in a cyclic process.
10. Explain the concept of reversible and irreversible processes.
11. Derive an expression for work done in an isothermal process.
(3x4 =12 marks)
Section D
(Answer to any 3 problems. Each question carries 4 marks.)
12. Derive Mayers relation using first law of thermo dynamics.
13. The given gas at S.T.P is suddenly compressed to 1/32 of its original volume. Find the
resulting pressure if the ratio of specific heat capacities of the gas = 5/3
14. One mole of a gas at 270C is isothermally expanded to double its volume. Calculate the work
done by the gas . R = 8.3 Jmol-1K-1.
15. A Carnots engine whose source is at 1270C takes in 4200 joules of heat in each cycle and

gives out 2940 joules of heat to the condenser. Find the temperature of the condenser.
16 .A company claims to have developed an engine working between the temperatures 2270C
and 150C having an efficiency of 45%. Comment on this claim.
(3x4 =12 marks)
Section E
(Answer all questions. Each question carries 8 marks. Answer in about two pages)
14. What is a Carnots cycle? Derive the efficiency of a Carnots reversible heat engine?
15. What is an adiabatic process? Derive an expression for work done in an adiabatic process.

(2x8 =16 marks)

FIRST SEMESTER B.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION, January 2016

(CUCBCSS-UG)
Complementary CoursePhysics
PH 1C 01PROPERTIES OF MATTER AND THERMODYNAMICS
Time: Three Hours
64 Marks

Maximum :

Section A
Answer all questions.
Each question carries 1 mark.

1. If the work done in stretching a wire by 1 mm is 2 J, the work necessary for stretching
another
wire of the same material but double the radius and half the length by 1 mm is
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.
2. A wire can support a load W without breaking. It is cut into two equal parts. The
maximum load
that each part can support is-------------.
3.
.

The viscous drag on a small spherical body moving with a speed v is proportional to--------------

4.

When the body attain terminal velocity its acceleration is-------------.

5. In a capillary tube, water rises to a height of 4 cm. If the cross-sectional area of the tube
were
one-fourth, water would have risen to a height of---------------.
6

A Carnot engine works first between 327 C and 27 C, The efficiency is .

.

Mean free path of the molecule of a gas depends on the molecular diameter d as--------------

.
8 The ratio of the two specific heats of a diatomic gas is (a) 1.66 (b) 1.4 9c0 1.33 (d) 1.21 .

9. In a complete Carnot cycle ,the change in entropy of the universe is 9a) positive (b)
negative (c) infinite
(d) zero
10. Give an example of thermodynamic system.

(10 x 1 = 10 marks)

Section B
Answer all seven questions.
Each question carries 2 marks.
11

State Hookes law.

12 Out of the stress and strain, which is the cause and effect? Why ?
13 What is meant by elastic hysteresis?
14 What is the significance of Stokes formula. What is its use?
15 State and explain First law of thermodynamics
16 Why do gases have two specific heats?
17 How does pressure effect the melting point of a substance?
(7 x 2 = 14
Section C

marks)

Answer any three questions.

Each question carries 4 marks.
18 Explain why steel is more elastic than rubber
19 Define the three medullae of elasticity and poissons ratio.
20 Discuss the various factors which control surface tension of a liquid.
21 Derive Claussius- Clapyeron equation
22 State and explain the principle of increase of entropy.
(3 x 4 = 12
marks)
Section D
Answer any three problems.
Each problem carries 4 marks.
23 A solid sphere of mass 3 kg and diameter 0.2 m is suspended from a wire. The torque
required to
twist the wire is 5 x 10 ~2 Nm/radian. Calculate the period of oscillation.
24 A metal plate 5 cm x 5 cm rests on layer of castor oil 1 mm thick whose coefficient of
viscosity is
1.55 NS m~ 2. Find the horizontal force required to move the plate with a speed of 2
em/s.
25 Calculate the amount of energy evolved when 8 droplets of water of surface tension

0.072 N/m and

radius 0.5 mm each combine into one.
26 Calculate the change in entropy of a system contains 1 kg ice at 0 C, which melts at
the same
temperature. Latent heat of ice 79.6 k cal/kg.
27 Calculate the change in boiling point of water when the pressure is increased by 1
atmosphere.
B.P of water is 373 K. Specific volume of steam 1.671 m 3 and Latent heat of steam
2.268 x 106 J
kg -1.
(3 x 4 = 12
marks)
Section E
Answer any two problems.
Each problem carries 8 marks.
28 Define a cantilever. With necessary theory explain how a cantilever can be used to find the
Youngs
modulus
29 Derive Poiseullies formula.
30 Explain the concept of reversible and irreversible process. Show that the efficiency
of a
reversible engine is maximum
31 Explain thermodynamic potentials. Derive Maxwells thermodynamic relations.
(2 x 8 = 16
marks)