2016

Department of Physics
Uka Tarsadia University

Integrated M.Sc. (Physics) (Semester 3)

Question Bank
Subject Code: 060100302
Subject Name: CC6 Thermal Physics
Unit: 1
1. Explain The Zeroth Law.
2. Calculate the coefficient of volume expansion and isothermal compressibility of a Van der
Waals’ gas.
3. What do mean by an isolated system?
4. Explain thermodynamic equilibrium.
5. Explain the concept of work and Heat.
6. Explain Carnot’s cycle and theorem.
7. Give the principle and application of Air Conditioner.
8. Explain the process of entropy changes in reversible and irreversible processes.
9. Define: Entropy.
10. State: First Law and internal energy.

Unit: 2
1. Explain Enthalpy.
2. Explain Gibbs function.
3. Explain Helmholtz and internal energy function.
4. Show the Maxwell’s relation and its application.
5. Explain the application of Joule Thompson Effect.
6. Obtain the Clausius Clapeyron Equation.
7. Give the expression for (Cp-CV).
8. Derive the Tds Equation.
9. Derive Tds Equation for a pure material using the energy equation.
10. Using Maxwell relations, show that the ratio of isentropic to isochoric pressure coefficient of
expansion is .

Unit:3

1 State the law of Equipartition of energy.

2 Define Mean free path.
3 Write the application of Equipartition of energy for specific heat of gases.
4 Derive the Maxwell’s law of distribution of velocities for gases.
5 Explain in brief all the three transport phenomena in gases.
6 Write the differences between real gas and ideal gas.
7 Derive the Vander Waal’s equation of state of real gases.
8 Draw the P-V diagram for the real gases.
9 Explain the Joule- Thomson Porous plug experiment.
10 Explain in brief, Joule- Thomson cooling law.
Unit :4
1 Explain in brief, Black body radiation.
2 Derive Planck’s law for black body.
3 Explain Wien’s distribution law.
4 Explain Rayleigh Jeans’s law.
5 State and explain Stefan Boltzmann law.
6 Deduce Wien’s displacement law from Planck’s law.
7 Define emissivity.
8 Define Absorptivity.
9 Explain the Kirchhoff’s law for Black body.
10 All the related numerical of above topic.

Subject Co-ordinator H.O.D of ASH

Vishva Jain Dr. Shree Mishra

Bijal Mehta

Text Book:
1. S C Garg, R M Bansal, C K Ghosh, Thermal Physics

Reference Book:
1. M.W. Zemansky, Richard Dittman, Heat and Thermodynamics, 1981, McGraw-Hill.
2. Meghnad Saha, and B.N.Srivastava, A Treatise on Heat, 1958, Indian Press
3. S. Garg, R. Bansal and Ghosh, Thermal Physics, 2nd Edition, 1993, Tata McGraw-Hill
4. Modern Thermodynamics with Statistical Mechanics, Carl S. Helrich, 2009, Springer.
5. Thermodynamics, Kinetic Theory & Statistical Thermodynamics, Sears &
Salinger,1988, Narosa.
6. Concepts in Thermal Physics, S.J. Blundell and K.M. Blundell, 2nd Ed., 2012, Oxford
University Press
7. Thermal Physics, A. Kumar and S.P. Taneja, 2014, R. Chand Publications.