JEE Main Thermodynamics and Kinetic Theory of Gases questions with solutions
First and second laws, thermodynamic processes, cycles, heat engines, ideal gas laws and kinetic theory. 19 questions from our 2016–2025 JEE Main pattern papers, from the Class 11 Physics syllabus. Each has the answer and a full solution.
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- One mole of a monatomic ideal gas is heated from 300 K to 600 K through a process in which the pressure is directly proportional to the volume.…
- A Carnot refrigerator works between a cold chamber at -3^circC and a room at 27^circC. In each cycle it extracts 4500 J of heat from the chamber. The…
- A rigid container holds 2 mol of helium and 1 mol of oxygen (treated as a rigid diatomic gas with no vibrational modes) in thermal equilibrium.
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- One mole of a monoatomic ideal gas is taken around a rectangular cycle on a P-V diagram: from (P0, V0) at constant volume to (2P0, V0), then at…
- One mole of a monoatomic ideal gas (γ = 5/3) at 300 K is compressed adiabatically and reversibly to 1/8 of its initial volume. Taking R = 8.314 J…
- A thermally insulated rigid vessel is divided into two compartments by a closed valve. The first, of volume 2 L, holds a diatomic ideal gas at 3 atm…
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