Gas Law Problems Name__________________________________

I. Boyle’s Law
1. A 3.00L pocket of air at sea level has a pressure of 100. kPa. Suppose the air pocket rises in the atmosphere to a
certain height and expands to a volume of 10.0L. What is the pressure of the air at the new volume?
2. A weather balloon has a volume of 1750L at 103 kPa. The balloon is released into the atmosphere. At the
highest point above the ground, the pressure on the balloon is 35.0 kPa. What is the new volume of the balloon
at this height?
3. A ball has a volume of 5.00L at a pressure of 100.kPa at the ocean surface. What is the volume of the ball if it is
submerged 100. m below the surface? The pressure increases by 9.80 kPa for every meter of ocean depth.
4. A small child brings an inflatable ball on a small plane. Before take-off, the 2.00 L ball has a pressure of 101.3
kPa. The pilot flies the plane at an altitude where the air pressure is 75.0 kPa. What is the volume of the ball at
this altitude if the temperature in the plane does not change?
5. A small 2.00L fire extinguisher has an internal pressure of 506.6 kPa at 25C. What volume of methyl bromide,
the fire extinguisher’s main ingredient, is needed to fill an empty fire extinguisher at standard pressure if the
temperature remains constant?
6. The gas in a 10.0L container exerts a pressure of 100. kPa. What pressure is needed to compress the gas to 2.0L
while keeping the temperature constant?
7. If the pressure of a 2.5 m3 sample of a gas is 1.5 atm, what volume will the gas occupy if the pressure is changed
to 7.5 atm?

II. Charles’s Law

1. The gas in a balloon occupies 3.50L at 27C. At what temperature will the balloon expand to 8.50L?
2. A 250.mL volume of gas is collected at 57C. What volume would this sample of gas occupy at 25C?
3. A flexible container holds 45.0L of air at 25C. What would be the volume of the container if it were cooled to
273K?
4. Gas in a balloon occupies 2.5L at 27C. At what temperature will the balloon expand to 7.5L?
5. The balloon from #4 is dipped in nitrogen that is at a temperature of -193C. What volume will the gas in the
balloon occupy at this temperature?
6. A child receives a balloon filled with 2.30L of helium from a vendor at an amusement park. The temperature
outside is 38C. What will be the volume of the balloon when the child brings it home to an air-conditioned
house at 22C?
7. A 1.5L pocket of air with a temperature of 22C rises. What will be the volume of the air pocket if the
temperature is decreased to 2C and the pressure is not changed?

III. Gay-Lussac’s Law

1. The pressure of a gas in a tank is 3.20 atm at 22.0C. If the temperature rises to 60.0C, what will be the gas
pressure in the tank?
2. A gas in a sealed container has a pressure of 125 kPa at a temperature of 30.0C. If the pressure in the container
is increased to 201 kPa, what is the new temperature?
3. The pressure in an automobile tire is 1.88 atm at 25.0C. What will be the pressure if the temperature warms up
to 37.0C?
4. Helium gas in a 2.00L cylinder is under 1.12 atm pressure. At 36.5C, that same gas sample has a pressure of
2.56 atm. What was the initial temperature of the gas in the cylinder?
5. If a gas sample has a pressure of 30.7 kPa at 0.00C, by how much does the temperature have to decrease to
lower the pressure to 28.4 kPa?
6. A rigid plastic container holds 1.00L methane gas at 660. torr pressure when the temperature is 22.0C. How
much more pressure will the gas exert if the temperature is raised to 44.6C?

IV. Combined Gas Law

1. A 7.00L sample of argon gas at 147C exerts a pressure of 625 kPa. If the gas is compressed to 1.25L and the
temperature is lowered to 77C, what will be the new pressure?
2. A helium balloon with a volume of 3.00L, a pressure of 100. kPa, and a temperature of 22C, is put into an
environment where the pressure is 50.0 kPa and the temperature is -23C. What is the new volume?
3. A sample of nitrogen gas occupies 25.0L at 527C and 485 kPa. What is the volume of the gas at STP?
4. A gas occupies 2.0m3 at -173C, exerting a pressure of 100. kPa. What volume would the gas occupy at 127C if
the pressure is increased to 200. kPa?
5. An 8.00L sample of neon gas at 25C exerts a pressure of 900. kPa. If the gas is compressed to 2.00L and the
temperature is raised to 225C, what will be the new pressure?
6. A sample of methane that initially occupies 850. mL at 500. kPa and 227C is compressed to a volume of 700.
mL. To what temperature will the gas need to be cooled to lower the pressure of the gas to 200. kPa?
7. A sample of carbon dioxide occupies at 45m3 at 477C and 500. kPa. What is the volume of this gas at STP?

V. Ideal Gas Law

1. A 500. g block of dry ice vaporizes to a gas at room temperature. Calculate the volume of gas produced at 25C
and 975 kPa.
2. Calculate the volume of 1.00 mol of carbon dioxide at STP.
3. The average lung capacity for humans is about 4.0 L. At 37C and 110. kPa, how many moles of oxygen gas
could your lungs hold?
4. If 40.0 g of methane, CH4, is confined to 2500. mL at 200. C, what pressure does it exert?
5. If 7.0 mol of helium gas is in a 2.50 x 104 L tank, at what temperature will it exert a pressure of 1.2 atm ?
6. A 28.02 g sample of nitrogen is sealed in a 6.00 L container and heated to a temperature of 327 C. What is the
pressure of the gas?
7. What is the mass in grams of 750. mL of carbon dioxide at STP?

VI. Dalton’s Law of Partial Pressures

1. A gas is collected by water displacement at 50.C at a barometric pressure of 95.00 kPa. What is the pressure
exerted by the dry gas?
2. Oxygen gas is collected by water displacement from the reaction of Na 2O2 and water. The oxygen displaces 318
mL of water at 25C and 1.000 atm. What is the pressure of the dry oxygen?
3. A gas is collected by water displacement at 40.C at a total pressure of 110.00 kPa. Determine the partial
pressure exerted by the gas.
4. A gas is collected over water at a temperature of 20.C at a total pressure of 98.00 kPa. Determine the partial
pressure exerted by the gas.
5. The air pressure over a pond at 30.C is 102.00 kPa. Determine the partial pressure of the dry air.
6. What is the total pressure of a mixture of gases made up of carbon dioxide, oxygen, and hydrogen, if the partial
pressures are 22.3 kPa, 44.7 kPa, and 112.0 kPa, respectively?
7. A mixture of neon and argon gases exerts a total pressure of 2.39 atm. The partial pressure of the neon alone is
1.84 atm. What is the partial pressure of the argon?
Use the following table to answer the questions involving the vapor pressure of water above:
Vapor Pressure of Water at Various Temperatures
Temperature Pressure H2O Temperature Pressure H2O Temperature Pressure H2O
(C) (kPa) (C) (kPa) (C) (kPa)
0 0.61 35 5.63 70 31.18
5 0.87 40 7.38 75 38.56
10 1.23 45 9.59 80 47.37
15 1.71 50 12.34 85 57.82
20 2.34 55 15.75 90 70.12
25 3.17 60 19.93 95 84.53
30 4.25 65 25.02 100 101.325