Gas Laws Problem Set 1

Part 1
Complete the following conversions:

a) 0.735 atm to mmHg

b) 1 mmHg to Pascals

c) 0.75 atm to kPa

d) 0.75 atm to mmHg

e) 349 mmHg to atm

f) 129 kPa to mmHg

g) 723 mmHg to Pascals

h) 1254 Pa to atm

i) 1.06 atm to Pa

j) 770 mmHg to kPa

k) 98 kPa to atm

Part 2

Boyle’s Law
1. What is STP? What do these letters stand for? Give the value for each.
2. List three factors that can affect the pressure of a gas.
3. A metal gas tank contains 1 mol of nitrogen gas at STP. What will happen to the pressure if
another mole of gas is added to the cylinder but the temperature does not change?
4. State Boyle’s Law.
5. When considering the relationship between the volume and the pressure of a gas, what condition
must be kept constant? Why?
6. Write the Boyle’s Law equation.
7. At constant temperature, what will happen to the pressure of a gas if the volume of the gas is
increased?
8. At constant temperature, what will happen to the volume of a gas if the pressure of the gas is
increased?
9. At constant temperature, what will happen to the pressure of a gas if the volume of the gas is
decreased?
10. At constant temperature, what will happen to the volume of a gas if the pressure of the gas is
decreased?
Charles’s Law
11. State Charles’s Law.
12. Write the equation for Charles’s Law.
13. When considering the relationship between temperature and volume, what condition must be
kept constant? Why?
14. If a sample of a gas is heated, what will happen to its volume?
15. If a sample of a gas is cooled, what will happen to its volume?
16. What unit and value is used for “standard temperature”?
17. How do you change a Kelvin temperature to a Celsius temperature?
18. How do you change a Celsius temperature to a Kelvin temperature?
19. What is the lowest possible temperature in the Kelvin scale?
20. Define absolute zero. Give the temperature of absolute zero in both Celsius and in Kelvin
temperatures.
21. Why must the Kelvin temperature be used in calculations that involve gases?
22. As the temperature decreases, at what point will a gas no longer obey Charles’s Law?
23. You blow up a balloon and tie it off. You then place this balloon in a freezer. What will happen to
this balloon after it has remained in the freezer for some period of time? Why?

Gay – Lussac’s
24. State Gay – Lussac’s Law.
25. What happens to the pressure exerted by a gas when the temperature is increased?
26. What happens to the pressure exerted by a gas when the temperature is decreased?
27. What is the equation for Gay – Lussac’s Law?
28. When considering the relationship between pressure and temperature, what condition must be
kept constant? Why?
29. Describe the movement of the molecules of a gas when the gas is heated.
30. Explain why a gas in a closed container exerts pressure.
31. Why would it be dangerous to heat a tightly stoppered flask?

Part 3
Mixed Problems (Boyle, Charles, Gay-Lussac) in random order

32. A balloon has a volume of 245 cm3 at STP. What will be the volume, in dm3, if the pressure is
reduced by half? What would be the new in volume in liters (L)?

33. A balloon inflated indoors has a volume of 360 mL at 22 °C. When the balloon is moved to an
outdoor location, the volume increases to 0.41 L. Assuming constant pressure, what is the
temperature of the air inside the balloon at this outdoor location?

34. A full scuba tank contains 2.27 x 103 dm3 of air at a pressure of 2.07 x 104 kPa. What is the
pressure in the tank when the volume has been reduced to 1.8 x 103 dm3?

35. A gas confined in a rigid container exerts a pressure of 53.5 kPa at a temperature of 21 °C. What is
the pressure of the gas when it is cooled to a temp of -31 °C?

36. A gas cylinder contains nitrogen gas at 1000 kPa pressure and a temperature of 20°C. The cylinder
is left in the sun, and the temperature of the gas increases to 50 °C. What is the pressure in the
cylinder?
37. A gas has a volume of 300 mL at 150 °C. It is heated until its volume is 600 mL. What is the new
temperature of the gas if the pressure remains constant?

38. A gas has a volume of 8.5 dm3 at a temperature of 53 °C. At what Celsius temperature will the
volume be 6.4 dm3?

39. A gas sample with a volume of 1500 cm3 is heated from –65 °C to 75 °C. Assuming the pressure
remains constant, what is the volume of this sample, in dm3, when the temperature reaches 75 °C?

40. A gas with a pressure of 735 mm Hg and a volume of 4L is allowed to expand to a volume of 12L.
What is the pressure of the gas when the volume reaches 12 L, if the temperature remains
constant?

41. A gas with a volume of 4L at a pressure of 90 kPa is allowed to expand until the pressure drops to
20 kPa. What is the new volume?

42. A quantity of gas has a pressure of 1.39 atm and a volume of 6.95 L. What is the volume of this gas
when the pressure is changed to 740 mm Hg?

43. A sample of a gas has a volume of 0.102 dm3 at a temperature of 201 K. If the temperature is
doubled, what will be the new volume of the gas in cm3?

44. A sample of a gas has a volume of 152 cm3 when its temperature is 18 °C. If its temperature is
increased to 36 °C, what will its volume become, assuming the pressure remains constant?

45. A sample of a gas under a pressure of 822 kPa has a volume of 312 cm3. The pressure is increased
to 948 kPa. What volume will the gas occupy at the new pressure, assuming a constant
temperature?

46. A sample of gas exerts a pressure of 103.5 kPa at a temperature of 24 °C. If the volume remains the
same, what pressure will the gas exert when the temperature falls to –10 °C?

47. A sample of neon gas occupies a volume of 2.95 L at STP. Assuming constant pressure, at what
temperature will the volume reach 6.4 L?

48. At a temperature of -13 °C, a sample of gas exerts a pressure of 53.3 kPa. At what Celsius
temperature will the pressure reach 140 kPa?

49. At constant temperature, a gas is compressed from 4L to 1L. At 1 L, the pressure of the gas is 98.2
kPa. What was the original pressure of this gas?
 50. Calculate the volume, in liters, of a gas at 100 kPa if its volume at 120 kPa is 1500 mL.

51. Five liters of air at -36 °C is warmed to 89 °C. What is the new volume if the pressure remains
constant?

52. The gas in a container has a pressure of 300 kPa at 27 °C. What will the pressure be if the
temperature is lowered to -173 °C?

53. The gas in an aerosol can has a pressure of 120 kPa at 22 °C. The can is placed next to a fire and
the pressure rises to 189 kPa. What is the temperature of the gas in the can?

54. The pressure in a car tire is 200 kPa at a temperature of 25 °C. At the end of a journey on a hot day
the pressure had risen to 264 kPa. What is the temperature of the air in the tire in degrees
Celsius?

55. The volume of a gas is 204 cm3 at a pressure of 925 kPa. When the pressure is changed the volume
reaches 306 cm3. What was the pressure changed to?

56. Three pressures are given below. List them in order of increasing pressure.
(a) 1.75 atm (b) 765 mm Hg (c) 104 kPa

57. When a gas is heated from 25 °C to 45 °C, its volume reaches 359 cm3. What was the original
volume of this gas, assuming the pressure remains constant?

58. When a gas is heated to 130 °C, its volume changes from 250 mL to 375 mL. What was the
temperature of the gas before it was heated?

59. When the gas in a sealed container is heated from 10 °C to 47 °C, the pressure inside the container
rises to 1.75 atm. What was the original pressure in the can in kPa?

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