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The document contains 22 questions related to thermodynamics and gas laws. Specifically, it includes questions about: 1) Calculating heat transfer and temperature change during mixing/heating of substances using specific heat capacity and latent heat values. 2) Calculating changes in gas volume using the ideal gas law when conditions like pressure, temperature, and amount of gas are varied. 3) Determining final pressures and temperatures of gases under changing conditions based on the gas laws.

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5th Form Assignment 2

The document contains 22 questions related to thermodynamics and gas laws. Specifically, it includes questions about: 1) Calculating heat transfer and temperature change during mixing/heating of substances using specific heat capacity and latent heat values. 2) Calculating changes in gas volume using the ideal gas law when conditions like pressure, temperature, and amount of gas are varied. 3) Determining final pressures and temperatures of gases under changing conditions based on the gas laws.

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1.

100 g of an unknown metal at a temperature of 950C is poured into a 140 g aluminium


calorimeter containing 200 g of water. If the initial temperature of the water and calorimeter was
160C and the final temperature was 200C, find the specific heat capacity of the metal. (The

specific heat capacity of aluminium, c a 924 J kg 1 K 1 )


2.
How much heat is required to convert 0.1 kg of ice at 200C to steam at 1000C?
1 1
(The specific heat capacity of ice, ci 2300 J kg K , the latent heat of fusion of ice,

L f 3.34 x 10 5 J kg 1 , and the latent heat of vaporization of steam,

Lv 2.26 x 10 6 J kg 1 )
3.
A Styrofoam cup contains 250 g of coffee at 900C. 20 g of milk at 50C is added to the coffee and
the system is allowed to reach equilibrium. Find the temperature of the liquid. Assume that the
specific heat capacities of coffee and milk are the same as that of water.
4.
Calculate the quantity of heat that must be added to 400 g of ice at 00C in order to melt it.
1
(The latent heat of fusion of ice, L f 3.34 x 10 J kg )
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5.
How much heat is needed to raise the temperature of 2.0 kg of copper from 20.0 C to 70.0 C?
The specific heat capacity of copper is 3.9 x 102J kg -1
6.
1 kg of water at 100 0C is mixed with 2 kg of water at 20 0C. What is the final temperature of the
mixture?
7.
0.30 kg of ice at 0 C is added to 1.0 kg of water at 45 C. What is the final temperature,
assuming no heat exchanges with the surroundings? Take the specific heat capacity of water to
be 4200 J kg -1 K -1 and the specific latent heat of fusion of ice to be 3.4 105 J kg -1 .
8.
When a falling hailstone is at a height of 2.00 km its mass is 2.50 g. What is its potential energy?
Assuming that all of this potential energy is converted to latent heat during the fall, calculate the
mass of the hailstone on reaching the ground. Take the specific latent heat of fusion of ice to be
3.36 105 J kg1 and the acceleration due to gravity to be 9.81 m s2\

9.
A 0.59 kg brass candlestick has an initial temperature of 98.0C. If 21,100J of heat is removed
from the candlestick to lower its temperature to 6.8C, what is the specific heat capacity of
brass?

10.
Mercury has one of the lowest specific heat capacities. If 257J of heat are added to 0.45 kg of
mercury, the mercurys temperature will increase by 4.09K. What is the specific heat capacity of
mercury?

GAS LAWS

11.
I have an unknown volume of gas at a pressure of 0.5 atm and a temperature of 325 K. If I raise
the pressure to 1.2 atm, decrease the temperature to 320 K, and measure the final volume to be
48 litres, what was the initial volume of the gas?

12.
If I have 21 litres of gas held at a pressure of 78 atm and a temperature of 900 K, what will be the
volume of the gas if I decrease the pressure to 45 atm and decrease the temperature to 750 K?
13.
The temperature inside my refrigerator is about 40 Celsius. If I place a balloon in my fridge that
initially has a temperature of 220 C and a volume of 0.5 liters, what will be the volume of the
balloon when it is fully cooled by my refrigerator?

14.
A man heats a balloon in the oven. If the balloon initially has a volume of 0.4 liters and a
temperature of 20 0C, what will the volume of the balloon be after he heats it to a temperature of
250 0C?

15.
On hot days, you may have noticed that potato chip bags seem to inflate, even though they
have not been opened. If I have a 250 mL bag at a temperature of 19 0C, and I leave it in my car
which has a temperature of 600 C, what will the new volume of the bag be?

16.
A soda bottle is flexible enough that the volume of the bottle can change even without opening it.
If you have an empty soda bottle (volume of 2 L) at room temperature (25 0C), what will the new
volume be if you put it in your freezer (-4 0C)?
17.
1.00 L of a gas at standard temperature and pressure is compressed to 473 mL. What is the new
pressure of the gas?

18.
In a thermonuclear device, the pressure of 0.050 liters of gas within the bomb casing reaches 4.0
x 106 atm. When the bomb casing is destroyed by the explosion, the gas is released into the
atmosphere where it reaches a pressure of 1.00 atm. What is the volume of the gas after the
explosion?

19.
Synthetic diamonds can be manufactured at pressures of 6.00 x 104 atm. If we took 2.00 liters of
gas at 1.00 atm and compressed it to a pressure of 6.00 x 104 atm, what would the volume of that
gas be?

20.
The highest pressure ever produced in a laboratory setting was about 2.0 x 106 atm. If we have a
1.0 x 10-5 liter sample of a gas at that pressure, then release the pressure until it is equal to 0.275
atm, what would the new volume of that gas be?

21.
If a gas is cooled from 231.0 K to 315 K and the volume is kept constant what final pressure
would result if the original pressure was 621 mm Hg?
22.
If a gas in a closed container is pressurized from 12.0 atmospheres to 25.0 atmospheres and its
original temperature was 32.0 C, what would the final temperature of the gas be?

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