According to the law of equipartition of energy, the number of vibrational modes of a polyatomic gas of constant
(where and are the specific heat capacities of the gas at constant pressure and constant volume, respectively) [2024]
(3)
Polyatomic molecule has 3 translational, 3 rotational and vibrational modes.
According to law of equipartition of energy,
As,
So, the correct option is 3.
Match Column-I and Column-II and choose the correct match from the given choices. [2021]
Column-I | Column-II | ||
(A) | Root mean square speed of gas molecules | (P) | |
(B) | Pressure exerted by ideal gas | (Q) | |
(C) | Average kinetic energy of a molecule | (R) | |
(D) | Total internal energy of 1 mole of a diatomic gas | (S) |
(A)-(R), (B)-(Q), (C)-(P), (D)-(S)
(A)-(R), (B)-(P), (C)-(S), (D)-(Q)
(A)-(Q), (B)-(R), (C)-(S), (D)-(P)
(A)-(Q), (B)-(P), (C)-(S), (D)-(R)
(4)
The rms velocity is,
where, is a gas constant, = molecular mass, = absolute temperature. So,
Pressure exerted by ideal gas is where is mass of each molecule, = number of molecules, = rms speed. So,
Average kinetic energy of a molecule
where, = Boltzmann’s constant, = absolute temperature. So,
Total internal energy of 1 mole of a diatomic gas,
So, .
The average thermal energy for a mono-atomic gas is ( is Boltzmann constant and , absolute temperature) [2020]
(2)
For mono-atomic gas, degree of freedom = 3
Energy associated with each degree of freedom
So, energy is