Does molar heat capacity depends upon the process
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Answer:no
Explanation:
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Heat Capacity of a Gas
The heat capacity of anything tells us how much heat is required to raise a certain amount of it by one degree. For a gas we can define a molar heat capacity C - the heat required to increase the temperature of 1 mole of the gas by 1 K.
Q = nCΔT
The value of the heat capacity depends on whether the heat is added at constant volume, constant pressure, etc. Instead of defining a whole set of molar heat capacities, let's focus on CV, the heat capacity at constant volume, and CP, the heat capacity at constant pressure.
Heat Capacity at Constant Volume
Q = nCVΔT
For an ideal gas, applying the First Law of Thermodynamics tells us that heat is also equal to:
Q = ΔEint + W, although W = 0 at constant volume.
For a monatomic ideal gas we showed that ΔEint = (3/2)nRΔT
Comparing our two equations
Q = nCVΔT and Q = (3/2)nRΔT
we see that, for a monatomic ideal gas:
CV = (3/2)R
For diatomic and polyatomic ideal gases we get:
diatomic: CV = (5/2)R
polyatomic: CV = 3R
This is from the extra 2 or 3 contributions to the internal energy from rotations.
Because Q = ΔEint when the volume is constant, the change in internal energy can always be written:
ΔEint = n CV ΔT