To raise the temperature of a certain mass of gas by 50^oC at a constant pressure, 160 calories of heat is required. When the same mass of gas is cooled by 100^oC at constant volume, 240 calories of heat is released. How many degrees of freedom does each molecule of this gas have (assume gas to be ideal)?

A calorimeter of water equivalent 20 g contains 180 g of water at 25^oC. ‘m’ grams of steam at 100^oC is mixed in it till the temperature of the mixure is 31^oC. The value of ‘m’ is close to :
(Latent heat of water = 540 cal g^–1, specific heat of water = 1 cal g^{–1 o}C^–1)

A balloon filled with helium (32^oC and 1.7 atm.) bursts. Immediately afterwards the expansion of helium can be considered as

Consider a gas of triatomic molecules. The molecules are assumed to be triangular and made of massless rigid rods whose vertices are occupied by atoms. The internal energy of a mole of the gas at temperature T is :