Revision Worksheet Numericals

1. A vessel is filled with oxygen gas (molecular weight 32) at 0 °C temperature and at 1 atmospheric
pressure.What is the root mean square velocity of the oxygen molecules ?

460.5 m/s

2. The density of a gas at normal temperature is 1.2 kg/m3 .Calculate(i)root mean square velocity of
the molecules of the gas at 0° C (ii) temperature at which the velocity will become three times the
initial velocity (Normal pressure = 1x 105 N/m2) 500 m/s, 2184 °C

3. The root mean square velocity of helium atoms at normal temperature and pressure is 1300 m/s
Calculate (i) density of helium at 0 C (ii) mass of the helium atom

(i) 0.179 kg/m3(ii) 6.64 x 10-24g

4. Kinetic energy of oxygen molecule at 0 C is 5.64 x 10-21 J. Calculate Avogadro ’s number

6.035 x 10 23

5. What will be the ratio of the root mean square speeds of the molecules of an ideal gas at 270 K
and 30 K?

6. A U-shaped wire is dipped in a soap solution and removed. The thin soap film formed between the
wire and a light slider supports a weight of 1.5 X 10-2 N. The length of the slider is 30 cm. What is the
surface tension of the film? 0.025 N/m

7. The surface tension of a soap solution is 0.03N/m. How much work is required to form a bubble
od 1cm radius from this solution? 7.53 X 10-5 Nm

8. A mercury drop of radius 1mm breaks up into 27 droplets of equal volumes. Calculate the work
done in the process. Surface tension of mercury= 0.465 N/m 1.17 x 10-5 J

9. A small hollow sphere which has a small hole in it immersed in water to a depth of 40 cm before
any water penetrates into it. If the surface tension of water is 7.3 x 10-2 N/m, find the radius of the
hole. The density of water is 1000 kg/m3 0.0372mm

10. Water rises in a capillary tube to a height 2 cm. In another capillary whose radius is one third of
it, how much will the water rise? If the first capillary is inclined at an angle of 60° with the vertical
then what will be the position of water in the tube? 6 cm , 4 cm

11. Water easily flows steadily through a horizontal pipe of varying diameter. The pressure of water
is 1 cm of mercury column at a point where the velocity of flow is 0.35 m/s. Find the pressure at
another point where the velocity of flow is 0.65 m/s . density of mercury = 13.6 g/cm3 0.885 cm of hg

12. Water is flowing through two different pipes of different diameters which are connected
together. In the first pipe the velocity of water is 4 m/s and the pressure is 2 x 10 4 N/m2 .Calculate
the velocity and pressure of water in the second pipe. The diameters of the pipes are 3 cm and 6 cm
respectively. 2.75 x 104 N/m2

13. An air bubble of radius 1 cm rises up in a liquid column with terminal velocity of 0.21 cm/s. If the
density of liquid be 1.47 x 103 kg/m3, then calculate the coefficient of viscosity of the liquid.
 1.52 x 103 poise

14. An oil drop falls through air with a terminal velocity of 5 x 104 m/s. (a)Calculate the radius of the
drop (b) what will be the terminal velocity of a drop of half this radius? Given viscosity of air= 1.8 x
10-5 Ns m-2 and density of oil = 900 kg/m3

15. A particle is executing linear SHM of amplitude a.(a) What fraction of the total energy is kinetic
when displacement is half the amplitude(b) at what displacement is the energy half kinetic and half
potential

16. Show that for a particle in linear SHM, the average kinetic energy over a period of oscillation is
equal to the average potential energy over the same period.

17. A 10 cm thick slab of surface area 0.36 m2 is placed on a hot surface at a constant temperature of
100° C. A block of ice at 0 °C is placed on the upper surface of the slab. In half an hour, 2.4 kg of ice
melts. Find the thermal conductivity of the material of the slab. L of ice= 3.35 x 105 J/kg

1.24 J/s-1/m-1/°C-1

18. A brass boiler has a base area of 0.15 m2 and thickness 1 cm .It boils water at a rate of 6 kg/min
when placed on a gas stove. Estimate the temperature of the part of the flame in contact with the
bolier. Thermal conductivity of brass = 109 J/s-1/m-1/°C-1 , heat of vaporisation = 2256 J/g

19. The opposite faces of an iron cube are in steam (100° C) and in ice (0 °C). Each side of the cube is
2 cm and the thermal conductivity of iron is 0.2 cal s-1/cm-1/°C-1 . How much ice will melt in 5 min?
Latent heat of ice is 80 cal g-1 .

150 gm

20. The third overtone of a closed pipe is found to be in unison with the first overtone on an open
pipe. Find the ratio of the lengths of the pipes.

7/4

21. A pipe 0.35 m long is closed at one end. Which harmonic mode of the pipe is resonantly excited
by a 735 Hz source? Will this same source be in resonance with the pie if both ends are open? Given
that speed of sound in air = 343 m/s.

Third, no

22. A tuning fork of known frequency of 256 Hz makes 5 beats s-1 with the vibrating string of a piano.
The beat frequency decreases to 2 beats s-1 , when the tension in the piano string is slightly
increased. What was the frequency of the piano string before increasing the tension?

251 Hz