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1. In your own words, describe an ideal gas.
2. (a) Show the computation of your experimental value for the adiabatic index for Hydrogen gas.
(b) Is Hydrogen gas monatomic or diatomic?
3. (a) Show the computation of your experimental value for the adiabatic index for Helium gas.
(b) Is Helium gas monatomic or diatomic?
4. Why is “Absolute Zero” (0 K) the lowest possible temperature a material can have? (Consider the equations in the introduction when answering).
5. (a) Determine the speed of sound in an diatomic ideal gas with molecular mass (m = 5 × 10−26 kg) at 0 ◦C.
(b) How does the speed of sound change if the temperature is increased to 100 ◦C?
(c) How does the speed of sound change if the gas is instead monatomic?