Q. Certain amount of an ideal gas is contained in a closed vessel. The vessel is moving with a constant velocity . The molecular mass of gas is . The rise in temperature of the gas when the vessel is suddenly stopped is

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Solution:

If is the total mass of the gas, then its kinetic energy . When the vessel is suddenly stopped, total kinetic energy will increase the temperature of the gas (because process will be adiabatic), i.e.,