Short Answer Type
Long Answer TypeWhat do you understand by:
(i) Isothermal process
(ii) Adiabatic process
(iii) Isobaric process
(iv) Isochoric process
(v) Cyclic process?
Give the points of difference between reversible process and irreversible process.
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Reversible process |
Irreversible process |
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1. Such processes take place infinitesimally slowly and their direction at any point can be reversed. |
1. The process cannot be reversed. |
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2. It is a slow process. |
2. It is a fast process. |
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3. This process is in equilibrium at all stages of operation. |
3. There is no equilibrium. |
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4. This is an ideal and imaginary process. |
4. It is a real process. |
Short Answer TypeClassify the following processes as reversible or irreversible:
(i) mixing of two gases by diffusion.
(ii) dissolution of sodium chloride in water
(iii) evaporation of water at 373 K at 1 atm pressure
(iv) expansion of a gas in vacuum.
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