Description: After studying this lesson, you should be able to learn about, heat capacity and specific heat, principle of caorimetry, thermal expansion, relation between α, β and γ, assumptions of kinetic theory of gases, expression for pressure P, how rms velocity and average velocity are related to temperature, gas laws on the basis of kinetic theory of gases, kinetic interpretation of temperature and compute the mean kinetic energy of a gas, degrees of freedom of a system of particles, law of equipartition of energy, the relation Cp – Cv = R/J