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Physics quiz for grade 10: Molecular physics and thermodynamics

This quiz helps revise “Molecular physics and thermodynamics” in Physics for grade 10. It has 25 questions in five categories: Molecular motion, Gas laws, Vapour and liquids, Internal energy, Heat engines. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • For ages 15–16
  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: Molecular physics and thermodynamics

A peek at the questions

The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

Molecular motion

  1. 100

    How do ideal-gas particles move between collisions according to kinetic molecular theory?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    Which temperature scale must be used when relating average particle kinetic energy to temperature?

  3. 300

    Two ideal gases have…

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  4. 400

    A gas warms from…

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  5. 500

    At the same temperature…

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Gas laws

  1. 100Picture for the question

    At constant temperature, a gas occupies 4 litres. Its pressure doubles. What is the new volume?

  2. 200

    At constant pressure, a gas warms from 300 to 450 kelvins. Its volume was 2 litres. What is the new volume?

  3. 300

    At constant volume, gas…

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  4. 400

    A gas is at…

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  5. 500

    A gas starts at…

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Vapour and liquids

  1. 100

    Which process lets molecules leave a liquid surface below the liquid's boiling point?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    Boiling begins when a liquid's saturated vapour pressure equals what pressure?

  3. 300

    What is the temperature…

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  4. 400

    Water-vapour pressure is 1.5…

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  5. 500

    One glass capillary has…

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Internal energy

  1. 100

    What quantity equals the sum of microscopic kinetic and potential energies of a system's particles?

  2. 200

    What is energy transfer driven by a temperature difference called?

  3. 300

    A gas receives 500…

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  4. 400

    What is the change…

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  5. 500

    A gas receives 900…

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Heat engines

  1. 100Picture for the question

    What device cyclically converts part of the heat it receives into mechanical work?

  2. 200

    An engine absorbs 600 joules of heat and rejects 400 joules. How much work does it do per cycle?

  3. 300

    Which law forbids a…

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  4. 400

    An engine absorbs 800…

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  5. 500

    What is the maximum…

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