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Department of Civil Engineering

SCI 401: General Chemistry

Practice Set

1. Consider the following chemical reaction:

What is the change in enthalpy of this reaction?

Solution: Use the values in the Standard Thermodynamic Values and calculate their change in enthalpy using:
H = Hfinal – Hinitial.

2. Determine ΔHf o of ethanol (C2H5OH) from its standard enthalpy of combustion (-1367.4 kJ/ mol to produce CO2(g)
and H2O(l)).

3. What is the change in enthalpy when creating 5 moles of Nitrogen Dioxide from the equation:

4. Calculate ΔH for the following reaction:

5. Given the equations:

A→E+F ΔH=−50kJ
E+F→C+G ΔH=+85kJ
B+G→D ΔH=−10kJ

What is the change in enthalpy of A + B → C + D?

6. How much energy is needed to change the temperature of 50.0 g of water by 15.0C?

7. How many grams of water can be heated from 20.0C to 75oC using 12500.0 Joules?

8. The heat capacity of aluminum is 0.900 J/gC.

a. How much energy is needed to raise the temperature of a 8.50 x 102 g of aluminum from 22.8oC to 94.6oC?

9. In a coffee-cup calorimeter, 100.0 g of H2O and 100.0 mL of HCl are mixed. The HCl had an initial temperature of
44.6 oC and the water was originally at 24.6C. After the reaction, the temperature of both substances is 31.3C.
a.Was the reaction exothermic or endothermic? Explain.
b. Calculate how much heat the water lost or gained.

10. A piece of metal weighing 59.047 g was heated to 100.0 °C and then put it into 100.0 mL of water (initially at 23.7 °C).
The metal and water were allowed to come to an equilibrium temperature, determined to be 27.8 °C. Assuming no heat
lost to the environment, calculate the specific heat of the metal. (Hint: First calculate the heat absorbed by the water
then use this value for “Q” to determine the specific heat of the metal in a second calculation)

11. Identify the species being oxidized and reduced in each of the following reactions:
a. Cr+ + Sn4+ Cr3+ + Sn2+
b. 3 Hg2+ + 2 Fe (s) 3 Hg2 + 2 Fe3+
c. Al+ + O22+ Al + O23+
12. In the following redox reactions, identify the species being oxidized and reduced, and which is the oxidizing agent and
reducing agent.

2Au + 3Cu2+ → 2Au3+ + 3Cu

13. Balance the redox reactions:

Mg(s) 2+ + O2(g) → Mg(s) 6+ + O24+ (l)

14. In question 13, which is the oxidizing agent?

15. In the equation:

Pl + Cl2+ → Pl- + Cl3+

Did chlorine gained or lose electrons?

16. Predict the sign of ΔSrxn (positive or negative) for the following reactions:
a. 2 Mg (s) + O2 (g) → 2 MgO (s) ΔS_____
b. C6H12O6(s) J 2C2H5OH(l) + 2CO2(g) ΔS_____
c. 2 NH3(g) + CO2(g) J H2O(l) + NH2CONH2(aq) ΔS_____
d. Cu(s) (at 100o C) J Cu(s) (at 25o C) ΔS_____

17. Calculate ΔGo rxn for this reaction: 2 CH3OH (l) + 3 O2 (g) → 2 CO2 (g) + 4 H2O (l)

18. Arrange the compounds in order of increasing entropy (SS) and justify your order.
CH3OH(s)
CH3OH(l)
CH3OH(g)
CH3CH2OH(g)

19. Given these reactions reactions, determine whether the ΔS increases or decreases or stays the same at 25 °C;
H2SO4(l)→H2SO4(s)
H2O(l)→H2O(g)
CH4(g)+2O2(g)→ CO2(g)+2H2O(l)

20. Given the dissolving of CaCl2(s)

CaCl2(s)→Ca2+(aq)+2Cl−(aq)

Calculate the temperature of the reaction.

21. Calculate ΔGo for

CS2(l)+2O2(g)→CO2(g)+2SO2(g)

and tell whether the reaction is spontaneous, non-spontaneous or equilibrium.

22. What is the enthalpy of a substance with a Gibbs free energy of -563.2546 KJ/mole, an entropy of 64.786 J.mol/K
measured at 37C temperature?

23. If 456 mL of CaCl2 is to be produced from the equation

2Ca(g) + 2Cl2(g)( → 2CaCl2(g)

How much heat will evolve?

24. Calculate ΔH and ΔS for the following reaction and decide in which direction each of these factors will drive the
reaction.

N2(g) + 3 H2(g) → 2 NH3(g)

25. Hydrogen peroxide decomposes according to the following thermochemical reaction:

H2O2(l) → H2O(l) + 1/2 O2(g); ΔH = -98.2 kJ

Calculate the change in enthalpy, ΔH, when 1.00 g of hydrogen peroxide decomposes.