Chapter 18: Thermodynamics Flashcards

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The science of thermodynamics was developed in

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The early 19th century

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Early thermodynamics invoked macroscopic ideas such as

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Mechanical work, pressure, and temperature

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The foundation stones of thermodynamics are

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1) The conservation of energy
2) The fact that heat flows spontaneously from hot to cold and not the other way around

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Absolute zero

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There is no upper limit to temperature

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Absolute zero was the molecules have

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Lost all available KE

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When the temperature of a gas change, the volume of the gas also

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Changes

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At zero degrees with pressure constant volume changes by

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1/273 for each degree Celcius

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Absolute temperature scale is

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Kelvin Scale

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No negative number on

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Kelvin Scale

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Absolute zero was

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0 K

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First Law: When heat flows to or from a system, the system gains or loses an amount of energy equal to

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The amount of heat transferred

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System:

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Group of atoms, molecules, particles, or objects

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Three types of systems

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1) Open system
2) Closed system
3) Isolated system

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1) Open system

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System can exchange both matter and energy with surroundings

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2) Closed system

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System which can exchange only energy with surroundings

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3) Isolated system

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System in which neither energy nor matter can be exchanged with surroundings

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If we add heat, Q, to a sytem, two things can happen:

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1) It increases the internal energy, U, of the system (if it remains in the system)
2) It does work on things external to the system (if it leaves the systems)

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Heat added equal to

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Increase in internal energy plus with external work done by the system

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Q equal to (theta U) plus with

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W

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First Law of Thermodynamic is a restatement of

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The law of conservation of energy

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Energy can neither be

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Created nor destroyed

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Positive heat in, the positive work

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Out of the convention

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When work is done on a system, for example, compressing air in a tire pump, the temperature of the system

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Increases

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Adiabatic processes

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One of the thermodynamic processes which occur without any heat transfer between the system and the surroundings

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Heat added to system equal to

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0

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Increase/Decrease in internal energy equal to

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Work done on/by system

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27
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Compressing or expanding a gas while no heat enters or leaves the system is an

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Adiabatic process

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Adiabatic conditions are achieved by

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Thermally insulating a system from its surrounding or performing the process so rapidly that heat has no time to enter or leave

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Blow air on your hand first with your mouth wide open, then with puckered lips. In which case is the air coming out of your mouth cooler?

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When your lips are puckered

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Thermodynamics is useful to meteorologists when

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Analyzing weather

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1st Law: Air temperature rises as heat is added or as pressure is increased

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1) Radiation back from Earth
2) Moisture condensation (warming process)
3) Contact with ground

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In the adiabatic form (no heat is added), the first law becomes

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Air temperature rises (or falls) as pressure increases (or decreases)

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Adiabatic processes in the atmosphere occur in large parts of the air, called

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Parcels

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Parcels are large enough that outside air does not appreciably mix with the

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Air inside them

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As parcels of air rise, they experience

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Lower pressure so they expand

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Expanding air cools down to

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10 degrees Celsius for every 1 km rise in altitude

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Air continues to rise and expand as long as it has a

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Higher temperature than its surrounding

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When it gets cooler than the surroundings, it sinks

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No heat is added or taken away

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As parcels of air drop, they experience

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Higher pressure and heat up

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Parcels expand and cool with

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Lower pressure

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Parcel compress and warm with

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Higher pressure

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If cooler air occurs at an altitude lower than warmer air

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Temperature Inversion

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During a temperature inversion, if rising warm air is

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Denser than upper layers of warm air, it will no longer rise

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Second laws of thermodynamics:

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Heat always flows from hotter to cooler objects

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Heat can flow hot only when

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On the system energy from another source

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A heat engine is

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Any device that converts internal energy into mechanical work

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Basic ideas of thermodynamics:

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Mechanical work can be obtained only when heat flows from a higher temperature to a lower temperature

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Only some of the heat can be transferred into

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Work done

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Every heat engine has

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1) A reservoir of heat at a high temperature
2) A sink at lower temperature

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Every heat engine

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1) Gather heat from the reservoir at high temperature
2) Converts some of this heat into mechanical work
3) Expels the rest of the heat to the sink at lower temperature

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When work is done by a heat engine operating between two temperatures, T(hot) and T(cold) only some of the input heat at T(hot) can be converted to

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Work and the rest is expelled at T(cold)

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The ideal (maximum possible) efficiency of a heat engine was determined by

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Carnot

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In real heat engine, the efficiency is actually

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Less than ideal, due to friction

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Restatement of the 2nd law:In natural processes, high quality energy tends to

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Transform into lower quality energy order tends to disorder

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Processes in nature moving from disorder to order do not occur without

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External assistance

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Entropy

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Measure of the amount of disorder in a system

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If disorder increases, then entropy is

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Increase

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Entropy can decrease if work is

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Put into the system

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Living organism take in food or extract energy from

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Their surrounding and become more organized

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This energy is then used for various processes that help

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Maintain the organism’s internal order and decrease entropy

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Net entropy in the universe is

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Continually increasing

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We say net because there are some regions in which energy is

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Being organized and concentrated

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The second law of thermodynamics is

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A probabilistic statement

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Given enough time, even the most improbable states may occurs, entropy may

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Sometimes decrease

65
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The perpetual motion of air molecules could momentarily become

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Harmonious in a corner of the room and these situations are possible but they are not probable