P525/ 2

CHEMISTRY
Paper 2
July/ August 2023
2½hours

MPISSHA JOINT MOCK EXAMINATIONS 2023

Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education
CHEMISTRY
PAPER 2
2 hours 30 minutes

INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CANDIDATES

Answer five questions including three questions in section A and any two questions
in section B.
Write the answers in the answer booklet provided.
Mathematical tables and graph papers are provided.
Begin each question on a fresh page.
Non-programmable scientific electronic calculators may be used.
Illustrate your answers with equations where applicable.
Indicate the questions in the grid below.
Where necessary use C = 12, O = 16, H =1, Ca = 40, Ag =108, P = 31

Question Total

Marks

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1. (a) (i) Define the term colligative property. (01mark)

(ii) State the colligative properties of a solution. (02marks)

(b) (i) Describe how molecular mass of cane sugar can be determine

Using one of the colligative properties. (06 marks)

(ii) State limitations of the method used. (02marks)

(c) The table below shows the freezing points of various solutions of cane
sugar in solvent X.

Mass of cane sugar 26 42 66 78 118 148 173

(g /1000g of solvent X)
Freezing point. (oC) 5.11 4.87 4.51 4.33 3.73 3.28 2.91

(i) Plot a graph of freezing point against mass of cane sugar and use
graph to determine the: (03marks)
(ii) Freezing point of solvent X. (01marks)
(iii) Freezing point constant for solvent X. (02marks)
(RMM of cane sugar = 342)

(d) State and explain how the freezing points of the solution would be
affected if cane sugar associates in solution X. (03marks)

2. (a) Define the terms

(i) Conductivity (01mark)
(ii) Molar conductivity (01mark)

(b) The table below shows the molar conductivities of an aqueous solution of
sodium hydroxide.
Concentration 0.01 0.04 0.09 0.16 0.25 0.36
(moldm )
-3

Molar conductivity 238 230 224 217 210 202

Λ/ Scm mol
2 -1

(i) Plot a graph of molar conductivity against square root of

concentration. (3½marks)

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 (ii) Use the graph to determine the molar conductivity of sodium
hydroxide at infinity dilution. (01mark)
(iii) Explain the shape of the graph. (03marks)

(c) (i) Draw a sketch graph to show the change in the conductivity

With volume of ammonia solution when 25cm3 of 0.1M methanoic

acid is titrated with 0.1M ammonia solution.
(02marks)

(ii) Explain the shape of the graph. (3½marks)

(d) The conductivity of a saturated solution of silver phosphate at 25oC is

2.661x 10-6Scm-1 and that of pure water is 1.519 x 10-6Scm-1. If the molar
ionic conductivities of silver ions and phosphate ions at infinite dilution
at 25oC are 61.9 and 240Scm2mol-1 respectively. Calculate the

(i) Solubility of silver phosphate in molesdm-3 at 25oC. (2½marks)

(ii) Solubility product of silver phosphate at 25oC and state its units. .
(2½marks)
3 (a) Write the general outer most electron configuration of group (IV) elements

(b) Describe the reactions of; (½mark)

1
(i) Carbon, silicon, tin and lead with water (6 marks)
2
(ii) Lead with ethanoic acid (02marks)
(iii) Chlorides of lead with dilute sodium hydroxide solution (04 marks)
(iv) Lead (IV) oxide with concentrated hydrochloric acid (05marks)
(v) Silicon with acids (02 marks)

4 Explain each of following observations;

(a) When propanone was mixed with trichloromethane, a warm miscible mixture was
formed whose volume was lower than the sum of the volumes of the individual
components (04
marks)
(b) Methanoic acid forms a silver mirror with Tollen’s reagent while ethanoic acid
gives no observable change (04
marks)
(c) Hydrofluoric acid is a weak acid but its strength increase with increase in
concentration (05 marks)
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 (d) A mixture of benzene (boiling point 80℃ ) and water (boiling point 100℃ ) boils
at a temperature of 70℃ (03 marks)
(e) Phenyl amine is a weaker base than Ethyl amine (04 marks)

SECTION B

Answer two questions from this section.

5. (a) State
(i) Partition law. (01mark)
(ii) Three limitations of the law. (1½marks)
(b) (i) Describe an experiment to determine the partition coefficient of
Phenol between ethoxyethane and water. (06marks)
(ii) State two advantages and one disadvantage of using ethoxyethane
in this experiment. (1½marks)
(c) An aqueous solution contains 10g of phenol per litre. When 100cm3 of
this solution is shaken with 20cm3 of ethoxyethane, the athoxyethane
layer extracts 0.8g of phenol. Calculate mass of phenol extracted when
500cm3 of the aqueous layer was shaken with

(i) 50cm3 of the ethoxyethane. (04marks)

(ii) Two successive 25cm3 portions of the ethoxyethane.

(04marks)

(d) Comment on your results in (c) above. (02marks)

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6. Using equations, show how each of the following compounds can be synthesized. In each
case indicate the reagent(s) and condition(s) for the reaction.

OH
OH From phenol (04 marks)
(a)

(b) ¿ ¿ From 2-chloropropane (04 marks)

(c)
CH3 CH2 COOH from propene (04 marks)

CH3

Br
(d) From ethyne (04 marks)
C
H

(e)
From Benzoyl chloride (04 marks)

7. (a) State Hess’s law of constant heat summation. (01 mark)

(b) Explain what is meant by each of the following terms and in each case write an
equation to illustrate your answer.
(i) Hydration energy (02 marks)
(ii) Lattice energy (02 marks)
(c) Explain two factors that affect the value of lattice energy of a compound
(03marks)

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(d) In an experiment to determine lattice energy of anhydrous copper (II) sulphate, 4.0g
of anhydrous copper (II) sulphate was added to 50g of water and the temperature rose
by 8.0℃. When 4.0g of hydrated copper (II) sulphate was added to 50g of water and the
temperature of water dropped from 24.5℃ to 23.6℃.
[ S . H . C of solution=4.2 J g−1 K −1 ]
Calculate the enthalpy of solution of;
(i) Anhydrous copper (II) sulphate (03 marks)
(ii) Copper (II) sulphate-5-water (03 marks)
(e)(i)State which one of the two copper (II) salts in (d) is more soluble in water and explain
your answer. (03 marks)
(ii) Using a Born-Haber cycle determine the hydration energy of anhydrous copper (II)
sulphate. (03
marks)

8. Sodium, magnesium, silicon, phosphorus and sulphur are period III elements of the
periodic table.
a) State and explain the trend in melting points of the elements. (51/2marks)
b) Describe the reactions of the elements with;
(i) Water (7 marks)
(ii) Sodium hydroxide (71/2 marks)

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