When an ideal diatomic gas is heated at constant pressure,the fraction of the heat utilized to increase the internal energy of the gas is

Explain the specific heat capacity of water based on the kinetic theory of matter.

On giving an equal amount of heat at constant volume to $1 \, mol$ of a monoatomic and a diatomic gas,the rise in temperature $(\Delta T)$ is more for:

For a gas,$\frac{R}{C_{V}} = 0.4$,where $R$ is the universal gas constant and $C_{V}$ is the molar specific heat at constant volume. The gas is made up of molecules which are

How can specific heat be predicted from the law of equipartition of energy?

The figure shows the variation in heat supplied $(Q)$ with the change in temperature $(\Delta T)$ in an isobaric process for a monoatomic $(M)$,diatomic $(D)$,and a polyatomic $(P)$ gas. The initial state of all the gases is the same,and the scales for the two axes coincide. Ignoring vibrational degrees of freedom,the lines $a, b,$ and $c$ respectively correspond to