Heat and Thermodynamics 6 Question 2
6. Consider an ideal gas confined in an isolated closed chamber. As the gas undergoes an adiabatic expansion, the average time of collision between molecules increases as , where is the volume of the gas. The value of is
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
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Answer:
Correct Answer: 6. (b)
Solution:
- Average time between two collisions is given by
Here,
and
Substituting these values in Eq.(i) we have,
For adiabatic process,
substituting in Eq. (ii), we have