At 40^o C, a brass wire of 1 mm radius is hung from the ceiling. A small mass, M is hung from the free end of the wire. When the wire is cooled down from 40^oC to 20^oC it regains its original length of 0.2 m. The value of M is close to : (Coefficient of linear expansion and Young’s modulus of brass are 10^–5 /^oC and 10¹¹ N/m ² , respectively; g= 10 ms^–2 )

When heat Q is supplied to a diatomic gas of rigid molecules, at constant volume its temperature increases by $$\Delta $$T. the heat required to produce the same change in temperature, at a constant pressure is :

One mole of ideal gas passes through a process where pressure and volume obey the relation $$P = {P_0}\left[ {1 - {1 \over 2}{{\left( {{{{V_0}} \over V}} \right)}^2}} \right]$$. Here P₀ and V₀ are constants. Calculate the change in the temperature of the gas if its volume changes form V₀ to 2V₀

A 25 × 10^–3 m³ volume cylinder is filled with 1 mol of O₂ gas at room temperature (300K). The molecular diameter of O₂, and its root mean square speed, are found to be 0.3 nm, and 200 m/s, respectively. What is the average collision rate (per second) for an O₂ molecule ?