Topic 2.3: Gas Laws Questions

A fixed mass of gas has a volume of 8.0 L at a pressure of 250 kPa.

At the same temperature it is slowly compressed to a volume of 5.0 L.

Calculate the new pressure of the gas.

Estimate the average kinetic energy, in joules, of one molecule of air in a classroom at room temperature (20 °C).

Take k_B = 1.38 × 10⁻²³ J K⁻¹.

State what is meant by the absolute temperature of an ideal gas in terms of the motion of its particles.

Outline two assumptions of the kinetic model of an ideal gas.

A student verifies Boyle's law and finds that the product PV stays constant for a fixed mass of gas at constant temperature.

State the value being kept constant in this experiment, and state an appropriate SI unit for the constant PV.

At constant pressure a fixed mass of gas has a volume of 2.4 m³ at a temperature of 300 K.

The gas is heated until its temperature reaches 450 K.

Calculate the new volume of the gas.

State what is meant by one mole of a substance.

Two rigid sealed containers, X and Y, are identical in size and are kept at the same temperature.

Each container holds exactly 3.0 × 10²³ molecules.

The molecules of gas Y each have twice the mass of the molecules of gas X.

Both gases behave ideally.

How does the density and the pressure of gas Y compare with gas X?

A laboratory technician fills four identical sealed flasks, each with the same volume, at the same pressure of 105 kPa and the same temperature of 300 K.

Each flask contains one pure gas.

The gases used are carbon dioxide (CO₂, molar mass 44 g mol⁻¹), oxygen (O₂, 32 g mol⁻¹), neon (Ne, 20 g mol⁻¹) and methane (CH₄, 16 g mol⁻¹).

Which flask contains the smallest mass of gas?

At a constant temperature a student measures the pressure P of a fixed mass of gas at several volumes V and plots P against 1/V.

The points lie on a straight line through the origin that passes through (0.20 m⁻³, 5.0 Pa) and (0.50 m⁻³, 12.5 Pa).

Determine the constant in Boyle's law and state its SI unit, and explain why the graph is a straight line.

Two identical sealed containers each hold the same number of gas molecules at the same temperature.

Container 1 holds neon and container 2 holds the heavier gas krypton.

Compare the density and the pressure of the gas in the two containers.

A sealed insulated cylinder contains argon gas.

A piston is pushed in quickly, so that no thermal energy can leave the gas during the compression.

As the piston moves inward, the average speed of the argon molecules increases.

Which statement best explains, using the kinetic model, why the molecules speed up?

Four sealed flasks hold different ideal gases.

Each flask has the same volume, and the gases are at the same pressure and the same temperature.

The molar masses of the gases are: hydrogen 2 g mol⁻¹, helium 4 g mol⁻¹, nitrogen 28 g mol⁻¹ and oxygen 32 g mol⁻¹.

Identify which flask contains the smallest mass of gas, and justify your answer.

A fixed mass of gas occupies a volume of 1.6 × 10⁻² m³ at a pressure of 9.5 × 10⁴ Pa and a temperature of 22 °C.

Determine the number of molecules of gas present.

(k_B = 1.38 × 10⁻²³ J K⁻¹.)

A sealed rigid container of gas is at a pressure of 200 kPa when its temperature is 290 K.

It is then heated to 348 K.

Show that the new pressure of the gas is about 240 kPa.

Container A and container B hold the same ideal gas at the same pressure.

Container A has a volume of 2.0 × 10⁻³ m³ at a temperature of 320 K.

Container B has a volume of 3.0 × 10⁻³ m³ at a temperature of 300 K.

Determine the ratio of the amount of substance in B to that in A (n_B ÷ n_A).

A fixed mass of gas occupies 5.0 L at a pressure of 100 kPa and a temperature of 300 K.

It is then changed to a pressure of 150 kPa at a temperature of 360 K.

Determine the new volume of the gas.

A 0.50 mol sample of oxygen gas, of molar mass 32 g mol⁻¹, is sealed in a rigid container of volume 0.040 m³ at a temperature of 350 K.

Explain why the temperature must be expressed in kelvin, not in degrees Celsius, when using Charles' law or Gay-Lussac's law.

At constant pressure a fixed mass of gas is heated from 17 °C to 75 °C.

Deduce the percentage increase in the volume of the gas.