Internal energy Definition and 369 Threads

Homework Statement I need some help on these problems, i got most of the other problems right, but these ones I am not sure what to do with. I don't even know if those are the right equations for it. Someone please help. 1. A cylinder-and-piston containing an ideal gas is placed in...

Homework Statement Please help, I've been struggling with this question for so long! We haven't done internal energy so I am not sure even where to really begin? A 10.0 kg block is dragged over a rough, horizontal surface by a 76.0 N force acting at 20.0° above the horizontal. The block...

Hi, I am going to teach a class of year 9 students on the topic "Thermal Properties of Matter" and the concept of Internal Energy is mentioned inside. As I was trying to anticipate the types of questions that will be asked by them, this question suddenly struck me: Is there a limit to the...

Homework Statement Tarzan, whose mass is 110 kg, is hanging at rest from a tree limb. Then he let's go and falls to the ground. Just before he let's go, his center of mass is at a height 3.0 m above the ground and the bottom of his dangling feet are at a height 2.0 above the ground. When he...

The task is to derive an expression for the heat capacity of a system at constant volume and show that at high temperatures it is inversely proportional to the square of temperature. As far as I'm concerned the relation between internal energy and heat capacity is: Cv=dE/dT However with...

Homework Statement A gas sample heated in a cylinder used 650 kJ of heat. A piston that compresses the gas does 800 kJ of work. What is the change in internal energy, ΔE, of the gas during this process Homework Equations ΔE = q + w The Attempt at a Solution ΔE = q + w ΔE =...

Hmm. This is another thing I'm unsure abt. When some mechanical energy is converted to internal energy, can we still say that energy is conserved? Can the internal energy be negative? Thanks for answering my qns :)

How do you combine two separate volumes of an ideal gas which are at different temperatures pressures and volumes and then work out the change in internal energy? I have been trying to get my head around this without success.

Consider a gas contained in volume V at temperature T. The gas is composed of N distinguishable particles at zero rest mass, so that the energy E and momentum p are related by E = pc. The number of single-particle energy states in the range p to p + dp is 4\pi Vp^2 dp . Find the equation of...

I note that in many case, we always use the constant-volume specific heat to calculate the change of internal energy. For example, in a adiabatic process (P1, V1, T1) to (P2, V2, T2), since internal energy is state variable, we always like to build a fictitious isochoric process from (P1...

PROBLEM: Some warm water is mixed with ice and the ice melts. Assume that the entire process happens in an insulated box. Does the internal energy of the combined (ice+water) system change? Does the entropy of the combined system change? Considering that the ice and water as separate...

Homework Statement Two moles of carbon monoxide (CO) start at a pressure of 1.2 atm and a volume of 30 liters. The gas is then compressed adiabatically to 1/3 this volume. Assume that the gas may be treated as ideal. What is the change in the internal energy of the gas? n = 1.2 atm V2...

Homework Statement From the beginning of chapter 21 Haliday, Resnick and Walker: `Suppose that you return to your chilly dwelling after snowshoeing through the woods on a cold winter day. Your first thought is to light a stove. But why, exactly, would you do that? Is it because the stove...

Homework Statement Compare the Internal (or Thermal) energies of the different containers sketched below. Choose the correct ranking of the internal energies provided. Each container contains H2 molecules with the shown amount (the number of molecules) at the same temperature. a) A=B=C=D...

Homework Statement When you take a bath, how many kilograms of hot water (49°C) must you mix with cold water (12°C) so that the temperature of the bath is 36°C? The total mass of water (hot plus cold) is 191 kg. Ignore any heat flow between the water and its external surroundings. Temperature...

Boiling Internal Energy - URGENT A quick question: dU = dQ - dW What are dU, dQ and dW during Boiling? I thought: -the particles do work, hence dW is + -dU increases as particles gain more energy so dQ = dU + dW - showing that heat flows in. Which made sense to me. Or is...

Hi all, I'm am reading chapter 3 of Tinkham's "Introduction to superconductivity". At some point several thermodynamic quantities are considered (sec. 3.6.3). In particular fig. 3 compares the internal energies of the superconducting and normal states, showing that they are different below...

I am kind of confused by the conflict of the following two concepts. If I understood correctly, internal energy of a system is independent of the volume occupied by the gas molecules. This is because the gas molecules are assumed to be ideal and therefore have no intermolecular interactions...

[SOLVED] Internal energy of a gas Is the internal energy of a gas simply the total kinetic energy possesed by the particles? I ask this, since I have read this to be the case, however I have also read that when changing state, eg. from liquid to gas, the latent heat is the energy required to...

[SOLVED] Internal Energy of an ideal gas Homework Statement The temperature of 0.158 mol of an ideal gas is held constant at 67.0 degrees Celsius while its volume is reduced to a fraction of 20.0 % of its initial volume. The initial pressure of the gas is 1.19 atm. What is the change in...

Homework Statement On his honeymoon, James Joule tested the conversion of mechanical energy into internal energy by measuring temperatures of falling water. If water at the top of a Swiss waterfall has a temperature of 10.0 degrees Celsius and then falls 50.0 m, what maximum temperature at the...

Homework Statement P=RT/(v-b) - a/(T(V+c)^2) Homework Equations u2-u1= Integral ( Cv dT) + Integral ( T * (dP/dT)v - P) dV The Attempt at a Solution I've differentiated P with respect to T to get R/(v-b)+a/(T^2(V+C)^2 and plugged the relevants back into the equation for...

I know that molecules have kinetic and potential energy to make up internal energy. When the temperature of an object increases, the internal energy increases. When the kinetic energy doubles, the temperature doubles as KE is directly proportional to the kelvin temperature. Does this mean...

Homework Statement I have liquid natural gas, or LNG, at -165degrees Celsius. I want to know the total energy required to heat the gas up 50ml to 5 degrees Celsius. Homework Equations Not sure. Im assuming I need information regarding specific heat etc. Heat of vaporization maybe...

I am going over this example 0.5 kg of air undergoes a Carnot cycle with η = 0.5. Given the initial pressure p1 = 700 kPa, initial volume V1 = 0.12 m3 and heat transfer during the isothermal expansion process Q12 = 40 kJ, Find the highest and the lowest temperatures in the...

[SOLVED] Internal Energy and Heat Homework Statement Ten joules of heat energy are transferred to a sample of an ideal gas at constant temperature. As a result, the internal energy of the gas: a) increases by 10 J b) increases by less than 10 J c) increases by more than 10 J d) remains...

[SOLVED] Internal energy, thermodynamics Homework Statement I have the equation for the internal energy: U = (f/2) * N * k * T, where f is the degrees of freedom, N is the number of molecules, k is Bolzmann's constant and T is the temperature in Kelvin. This can be written as U = (f/2)*p*V...

[SOLVED] Internal Energy Problem Homework Statement Given .15meters cubed of Helium gas at 300K and 3Pa in a chamber with a frictionless piston. How much heat is required to double the internal energy of the gas at constant pressure? Homework Equations I really don't know what equations...

One mole of an ideal diatomic gas at room temperature undergoes a transition from a to c along the diagonal path in Figure 19-23. (a) During the transition, what is the change in internal energy of the gas? -4987 J (b) How much energy is added to the gas as heat? ____ J (c) How much heat is...

Internal energy vs temperature(q37) For this question: http://tinyurl.com/3ymlnj The answer to this question is c. But according to my understanding, increasing of internal energy means increasing of temperature. Hence is isothermal situation, the change of internal energy is 0. With...

Homework Statement One mole of hydrogen gas is heated from 278 K to 390 K at constant pressure. Hydrogen has a specific heat of 43.6 J/mol*K. The universal gas constant is 8.31451 J/K mol. Calculate the change in the internal energy of the gas. Answer in units of J Homework Equations...

Homework Statement one mole of He, H2, CO2 goes through a process such that the change in their internal energies are the same. WHich of the gases has a higher temp change? Homework Equations Eint=3/2nRdeltaT=nCvdeltaT (for monatomic gases) Eint=5/2nRT (diatomic gases) polytamoic gases...

Homework Statement I'm having trouble with the following two problems: 1. A jar of tea is placed in the sunlight until it reaches an equilibrium temperature of 32*C. In an attempt to cool the liquid, which has a mass of .180kg, .112 kg of ice at 0*C is added. At the time at which the...

I am so lost with this question. Can anyone help? The internal energy of the gas in a gasoline engine's cylinder decreases by 176:7 J. If 67.0 J of work is done by the gas, how much energy is transferred as heat? Answer in units of J

Homework Statement Does the internal energy increase/decrease(U), quantity of heat released or supplied (Q), and work done by or on a system (W) when (a) water freezes to ice at constant temperature (b) ice melts to water at constant temperature (c) water evaporates at constant temperature...

A 575 kg satellite is in a circular orbit at an altitude of 550 km above the Earth's surface. Because of air friction, the satellite eventually falls to the Earth's surface, where it hits the ground with a speed of 2.10 km/s. How much energy was transformed to internal energy by means of...

Thermodynamics--work, heat, & internal energy Homework Statement When a system is taken from state i to state f along path iaf in Figure 18-41, Q = 60 cal and W = 20 cal. Along path ibf, Q = 51 cal. Fig. 18-41 (see attatched) (a) What is W along path ibf? (b) If W = -13 cal for the...

How can I find the temperature of something if I'm give the internal energy(U), volume(V), and number of moles(N). I thought it'd just be pv = nrt but I am not sure what to do with the internal energy or how to use it with pressure. Thanks.

I'm currently studying A2 physics and I'm stumped on a particular question within a past paper involving internal energy of air. The question is as follows: Estimate the internal energy of the air in a room of volume 24m^3 at a temperature of about 20˚C. Assume that the air behaves as an...

Homework Statement The problem is that there are two , two-state paramagnets with Na = Nb (number of dipoles in each). uB = |kT|, energies of each dipole are + or - uB. Different internal energies to start, but they are brought together at thermal equilibrium and I need to find the average...

Can anyone tell me if Internal\ Energy + Pressure * Volume equals heat, total energy, energy in transit? What if all energy is assumed to be in transit (heat all the way down)? Would that mean all energy is heat? I tend to think so for the following reason: In a "complete" system (with...

ok so DELTA U = Q - W Where U is internal energy, Q is heat transferred from or to the system and W is the work done BY the gas right? I always mix up U and Q, the concepts. My teacher said U depends entirely on temperature, is this right?? Also, if Q =ncDELTA T, isn't Q also dependent on...

Ok, I must admit that I am becoming a bit confused about these concepts. I understand that enthalpy is u + Pv, and entropy has something to do with molecular randomness. I was fine until we started to solve for heat transfer when dealing with entropy and now I am confused, sometimes we use...

I need a little starter on this one...can't figure out how to do it(or even start it)...I'll work it, if I can get some help along the way... Two moles of an ideal gas at 20 deg C undergo a free adiabatic expansion from 2.0 liters to 66 liters. Then the gas is adiabatically compressed such...

Sir, I have a doubt. The internal energy U is a unique function of any state because change in U ___________. I think the answer is internal energy U is a unique function of any state because change in U does not depend upon path.U is a point function. But the given in book is " U depends...

Hi I wanted to know : - Most gases increase in temperature when they are compressed . Where does the energy for this come from . When a change of state from liquid to gases occurs is it accompanied by change in the internal energy of the liquid molecules ? Thanks a lot ..

Hi all, I'm stuck on a question, and I'm hoping you guys can help... Anyway, here it is: A J-shock in a Herbig-Haro object is propagating through neutral hydrogen gas at speed 100 kms-1. The gas has number density 107 m-3 and temperature 104 K. (d) The internal energy per unit mass of a...

A worker drives .5 kg spike into a rail tie with 2.50 kg hammer. Hits spike with 65 m/s. 1/3 kinetic energy converted to internal energy. Find increase in total internal energy. The problem I have having with this problem is that I don't know how to deal with the masses. I know PEi + KEi +...

hello I just realized I'm having some trouble figuring out the relationship between conservation of momentum and kinetic energy and internal energy in isolated system. We learned that total momentum gets conserved if two object collide in isolated system. But when learning about...

1. Cylinder contains 0.1 mol of ideal gas at a pressure of 2 atm and temperature of 300 K. The volume of the cylinder is 1.25 x 10^-3 m3. When the gas is heated from 300K to 350K, what is the change in internal energy of the gas? --->(I think the equation is Q=delta U + W but I don't know...