Heat and Thermodynamics (Weightage 6%)  

Topics from Heat and Thermodynamics

  • Equation of state of a perfect gas, work done on compressing a gas (2 concepts)
  • Kinetic theory of gases- assumptions, concept of pressure (13 concepts)
  • Kinetic energy and temperature:rms speed of gas molecules: Degreesof freedom (9 concepts)
  • Applications to specific heat capacities of gases: Mean free path, Avogadro'snumber (7 concepts)
  • Heat (4 concepts)
  • Thermal equilibrium, zeroth law of thermodynamics, the concept of temperature (13 concepts)
  • work (4 concepts)
  • internal energy (5 concepts)
  • First law of thermodynamics. (5 concepts)
  • reversible and irreversible processes (35 concepts)
  • Carnot engine and its efficiency. (4 concepts)
  • The second law of thermodynamics (9 concepts)
  • States of matter (1 concepts)
  • Ideal gas, its equation and laws of ideal gas (4 concepts)
  • Real gas (1 concepts)
  • Pressure of an ideal gas (1 concepts)
  • Maxwell's law (3 concepts)
  • Law of equipartition of energy (3 concepts)
  • Second Law of Thermodynamics (4 concepts)
  • Thermodynamics Processes (7 concepts)
  • Introduction to Thermodynamics (3 concepts)
  • First law of thermodynamics (2 concepts)
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