M Prakash Institute STD IX Chemistry
CLASSWORK PROBLEMS
Boyle’s law:
1. A balloon is filled with hydrogen gas at room temperature. It
will burst if pressure exceeds 0.2 bar. If at one bar pressure, the
gas occupies 2.27 L volume, up to what volume can the balloon be
expanded?
2. A manometer is connected to a gas containing bulb. The open
arm reads 40 cm where as the arm connected to the bulb reads 15
cm. if barometric pressure is 74 cm Hg, then what is the pressure
of gas in bar?
3. At fixed temperature and 600 mm pressure, the density of a gas
is 42. At the same temperature and 700 mm pressure, what is the
density of the gas?
4. 5 grams He at 27 o C is subjected to a pressure change from 0.5
atm to 2 atm. The initial volume of the gas is 10L. Calculate the
change in volume of the gas.
5. What is the volume of a sample of oxygen gas at a pressure of
3.5 bar if its volume at 1 bar is 3.15 L at the same temperature?
6. A gas occupies a volume of 2.5 L at 9×105 N/m2 . Calculate the
additional pressure required to decrease the volume of the gas to
1.5 L, keeping temperature constant.
7. A vessel of 120 mL capacity contains a certain mass of a gas
at 20o C and 750 mm pressure. The gas was transferred to a vessel
whose volume is 180 mL. calculate the pressure of the gas at the
same temperature.
8. 103 mL of carbondioxide was collected at 27o C and 763 mm
pressure. what will be its volume if the pressure is changed to 721
mm at the same temperature?
Charle’s law:
9. A gas at 300 K is compressed to reduce its volume to half of its
volume. At what temperature, will it become double of its initial
volume?
10. The volume of given amount of gas at 57o C and constant pres-
sure is 425.8 cc. If the temperature is decreased to 37o C at constant
pressure, what will be the volume?
11. At what temperature, the volume of a gas at 25o C becomes
twice when pressure is kept constant?
12. An open flask contains ait at 27o C. to what temperature it
must be heated to expel one-fourth of the air?
13. A flask having a volume of 250 mL and containing air is heated
to 100o C and sealed. Then the flask is cooled to 25o C, immersed in
water, and opend. What volume of water will be drawn back into
the flask, assuming the pressure remaining constant?
14. A sample of gas is found to occupy a volume of 900 cc at 27o C.
calculate the temperature at which it will occupy a volume of 300
cc, provided the pressure is kept constant.
Gay-Lussac’s law:
15. A cylinder containing cooking gas can withstand a pressure
of 15 atm. The pressure gauge of the cylinder indicates 12 atm at
27o C. Due to a sudden fire in the building, the temperature starts
rising. At what temperature will the cylinder explode?
16. Two flask of equal volume connected by a narrow tube of neg-
ligible volume are filled with N2 gas. When both are immersed in
boiling water, the pressure inside the system is 0.5 atm. Calculate
the pressure of the system when one of the flask is in an ice-water
mixture keeping the other in boiling water.
17. A steel tank contains air at a pressure of 15 bar at 20o C. the
tank is provided with a safety valve which can withstand a pres-
sure of 30 bar. Calculate the temperature to which the tank can
be safely heated.
18. A 10L container is filled with a gas to a pressure of 2atm at
0o C. At what temperature will the pressure inside the container be
2 atm.
Ideal gas equation:
19. A sample of nitrogen occupies a volume of 320 cc at STP. Cal-
culate its volume at 546K and 0.5 bar pressure.
20. One mole of pure N2 gas at SATP conditions was put into a
vessel of volume 24.8 m3 maintained at the temperature of 596.3K.
what is the pressure of the gas in the vessel?
Note: SATP = Standard Ambient Temperature and Pressure is a
reference with temperature of 298K and pressure of 101.325kPa.
21. A sample of gas occupies a volume of 320 cc at STP. Calculate
its volume at 66o C and 0.825 atm pressure.
22. How namy mole of oxygen are present in 400 cc sample of the
gas at a pressure of 760 mm Hg and a temperature of 27o C? (The
value of R is given to be 8.31 (kPa.L)/([Link])
23. The temperature at the foot of mountain is 30o C and prrssure
is 760 mm Hg, whereas at the top of the mountain these are 0o C
and 710 mm Hg. Compare the densities af the air at the foot and
at the top of the mountain.
24. The density of certain gaseous oxide at 1.5 bar and 10o C is
same as that of dioxygen at 20o C and 4.5 bar pressure. Calculate
the molar mass of the gaseous oxide.
25. The density of a gas is found to be 5.46 g/dm3 at 27o C and 2
bar pressure. What will be its density at STP?
26. The density of the gas is found to be 1.56 g/L at 745 mm
pressure and 60o C. calculate the molecular mass of the gas.
27. When 2 g of a gas A is introduced into an evacuated flask kept
at 25o C, the pressure is found to be 1 atm. If 3 g of another gas B is
then heated in the same flask, the total pressure becomes 1.5 atm.
Assuming ideal gas behavior, calculate the ratio of the molecular
weights MA and MB .
28. Calculate the weight of methane in 9 L cylinder at 16 atm and
27o C. [Given: R = 0.08 ([Link])/([Link])]
29. Calculate the volume occupied by 5 g of acetylene gas (C2 H2 )
at 50o C and 740 mm pressure.
30. An open vessel at 27o C is heated until 3/5 of the air in it is
expelled. Assuming that the volume of the vessel remains constant,
find the temperature to which the vessel has been heated.
31. What volume of air containing 21 % of oxygen by volume is
required to completely burn 1 kg of sulphur which contains 4 %
incombustible material? Sulphur burns according to the reaction:
S8 + O2 → SO2 .
32. A gas cylinder contains 370 g oxygen at 30 atm and 30o C. what
mass of oxygen will escape if the cylinder is first heated to 75o C
and then the volve is held open until gas pressure becomes 1.0 atm,
the the temperature being maintained at 25o C?
33. A refrigeration tank holding 5.00 L Freon gas (C2 Cl2 F4 ) at
25o C and 3 atm pressure developed a leak. When the leak was dis-
covered and repaired, the tank had lost 76 g of the gas. What was
the pressure of the gas remaining in tha tank at 25o C?
34. A quantity of hydrogen gas occupies a volume of 30mL at a
certain temperature and pressure. What volume would half of this
mass of hydrogen occupy at triple the initial temperature, if the
pressure was one-ninth that of the original gas?
35. A 10 L cylinder of oxygen gas at 4 atm and 17o C developed a
leak. When the leak was repaired, 2.5 atm of oxygen remained in
the cylinder, still at 17o C. how many mol of gas escaped?