Physical Chemistry

Special Topics
I Theoretical questions
1. First law of thermodynamics deals with
a. direction of energy transfer
b. reversible process only
c. irreversible processes only
d. none of these
2. Internal energy of an ideal gas
a. increases with increase in pressure
b. decreases with increase in temperature
c. is independent of temperature
d. none of these
3. Equation which relates pressure, volume, and temperature of a gas is called
a. Equation of state
b. Gibbs Duhem equation
c. ideal gas equation
d. none of these
4. For an isothermal reversible compression of an ideal gas
a. only U= 0 b. only H = 0
c. U = H = 0
d. dQ dU
5. Reduced pressure of a gas is the ratio of its
a. pressure to critical pressure
b. critical pressure to pressure
c. pressure to pseudocritical pressure
d. pseudocritical pressure to pressure
6. Heat of formation of an element in its standard state is
a. 0
b. <0
c. >0
d. a function of pressure
7. The absolute entropy for all crystalline substances at absolute zero temperature
a. is zero
b. is negative
c. is more than zero
d. cant be determined
8. Cv is given by
a. ( U/ T)v
b. ( U/V)T
c. ( U/P)v
d. (V/ T)P
9. If different processes are used to bring about the same chemical reaction, the enthalpy
change is same for all of them.
a. Hesss law
b. Kirchhoffs law
c. Lavoisier and Laplace law
d. none of these
10. A chemical reaction will occur spontaneously at constant pressure and temperature, if
free energy is
a. zero
b. positive
c. negative
d. none of
these
11. As the entropy of the universe is increasing day by day the work producing capacity
of a heat engine is
a. not changed
b. decreasing
c. increasing
d. data insufficient cant be predicted

II Problem Solving
1. Two liters of a gas at 30oC and 0.9 atmospheres are decreased to 0.5 liters and the
pressure is increased to 3 atmospheres. What is the final temperature in oC?
a. -20.5
b. -40.1
c. 35.2
d. 20.5
2. If 250 mL of a gas weighs 0.300g at STP, what is the molecular weight of the gas?
a. 53.8
b. 26.9
c. 13.5
d. 107.6
3. A particular gas is found to diffuse 1.33 times as fast as another. The faster of the two
gases is analyzed and has a molecular weight of 17. What is the molecular weight of the
heavier?
a. 15
b. 30.1
c. 60.2
d. 120.4
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4. If you mix 6.0g of SO2 and 6.0 g of CO2 in a 2.0-L flask at 20 C, what will be the
pressure in the flask? Assume that the gases behave ideally.
a. 2.7 atm
b. 1.35 atm
c. 5.4 atm
d. 10.8 atm
5. Hydrogen gas can be produced by treating a metal with an acid and collected by
displacement of water. If the reading on the gas buret is 26.7 mL at a room temperature of
23.4oC and a barometric pressure of 750.8mm Hg, how many grams of hydrogen can be
collected? Assume ideal behavior.
a. 0.00212 g
b. 0.00424 g
c. 0.00106 g
d. 0.00636 g
6. Use the van der Waals equation to calculate the pressure exerted by 2 moles of CO2 in a
20.0-L container at 373 K. For CO2 a = 3.64 x 105 Pa L2 mol-2 and b = 4.27 x 10-2 L mol-1.
a. 0.15 MPa
b. 0.3 MPa
c. 0.6 MPa
d. 1.5 MPa
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7. If 1 mole of a certain gas occupies a volume of 0.124 L at 60 C and 200 atm, what is the
compressibility factor.
a. 0.4
b. 1.4
c. 1.0
d. 0.97
8. Calculate the Boyle temperature for CH4. The van ser Waals constant are a = 2.253 L2
atm mol-2 and b = 0.0428 L mol-1.
a. 641 K
b. 373oC
c. 415 K
d. 641oC
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9. The density of HBr gas was measured to be 2.4220 g L at 0 C and 0.66667 atm.
Calculate the molecular weight of HBr using the Berthelot equation. The critical constant
are Tc = 90oC and Pc = 84.44 atm.
a. 45
b. 81
c. 60
d. 160
10. In an experiment to measure the specific heat of lead, 80.0 g of lead was heated to 98.0C
and quickly added to 80.0 g of water, which was at 23.0 C. The temperature of the water
rose to 25.2C. Calculate the experimental value of the specific heat of lead in cal/g-C.
a. 0.15
b. 06
c. 0.24
d. 0.03
11. Calculate the heat required to raise the temperature of 100.0 g of H2 from 25.0 to 35.0 C
at constant pressure. The heat capacity of hydrogen can be taken as constant at 29.1 J/Kmol over a small range of temperature.
a. 14.4 kJ
b. 28.8 kJ
c. 7.2 kJ
d. 57.6 kJ
12. Calculate the maximum work that could be obtained if 2.00 mol of an ideal gas, initially
at STP, is allowed to expand to 100 L isothermally.
a. -3645.6 J
b. -1,822.8 J
c. 3645.6 J
d. 1822.8 J
13. If 5.00 mol of an ideal gas is heated at constant pressure from 300 K to 500 K, how much
work is done by the expansion of the gas?
a. 33.24 kJ
b. -1,986 cal
c. 1,986 cal
d. -33.24 kJ
14. Calculate the change in internal energy of a quantity of gas that absorbs 1000 cal of heat
while expanding from 15 L to 25 L at a constant pressure of 4.0 atm.
a. 62 cal
b. 15.5 cal
c. 31 cal
d. 93 cal
15. For a certain ideal gas, CV,m = (3/2) R. If 1 mol of this gas undergoes an adiabatic
reversible expansion from STP to a volume of 40.0 L, what is the final temperature?
a. 370 K
b. 185 K
c. 92.5 K
d. 277.5 K
16. Calculate the work done if a gas expands from 3.0L to 8.0L under a constant pressure of
3.0 atm.
a. -181.5 cal
b. 181.5 cal
c. 363.03 cal
d. -363.03 cal
17. Calculate the difference between U and H at 1000 0C for the reaction
2NO(g) + O2(g) 2NO2 (g)
a. -10.58 kJ
b. 21.16 kJ
c. 7.05 kJ
d. 28.2 kJ

18. What is the heat of combustion of aluminum? We can use the balanced chemical equation
4Al(s) + 3O2(g) 2Al2O3(s) + 760 kcal
a. -760 cal/mole
b. 380 cal/mole
c. 1520 cal/mole
d. -190 kcal/mole
19. What is the efficiency of a cyclic heat engine operating with its higher heat reservoir at
600 K and its lower reservoir at 200 K?
a. 2
b. 0.6667
c. 0.3333
d. 0.8
20. For an ideal gas having CP = 7/2 R, calculate the entropy changes of 5 mol of the gas
when it is heated from room temperature (298.0K) to 500 K at constant volume.
a. 53.7 J/K
b. 75.2 J/K
c. 73.5 J/K
d. 57.2 J/K
21. What is the entropy change in one mole of liquid glycol when it freezes at -25.0 C? At
the normal melting point ( - 15.0 C), the heat of fusion of glycol is 2688 cal/mol and
specific heats of liquid and solid glycol are 33.8 and 20.1 cal/mol K, respectively.
a. -9.87 cal/K
b. 4.94 cal/K
c. 19.74 cal/L
d. 6.58 cal/K
22. What is the change in entropy when one mole of calcite (CaCO3) decomposes at 298.2 K
to CaO (s) and CO2 (g) ?
a. 80.3 J/K
b. 60.6 J/K
c. 53.5 J/K
d. 160.6 J/K
23. Calculate the entropy if one mole of an ideal gas expands isothermally and reversibly
from 4.0 L to 9.0 L at 300 K.
a. 13.4 J/K
b. 3.35 J/K
c. 6.7 J/K
d. 26.4 J/K
24. Calculate S if 1 mol H2S is burned in oxygen to produce SO2(g) and H2O(g) at 298.2 K.
a. -76.5 J/K
b. 153 J/k
c. 76.5 J/K
d. -153 J/K
25. If the pressure on 3 mol of an ideal gas initially at STP is increased isothermally to 5 atm,
what is the change in the Gibbs free energy?
a. 572.5 J
b. 1145 J
c. 2290 J
d. 763.3 J
26. For the reaction 2NO2(g) = N2O4(g), calculate Kp if Gof for N2O4 is 97.9 kJ while it is
51.3 kJ for NO2.
a. 6.7
b. 13.4
c. 0.15
d. 3.3
27. Calculate the molecular weight of the solute when the vapor pressure of a solution
containing 7.5 grams of that nonvolatile nonelectrolyte dissolved in 85 grams of water is
22.98 mm Hg. These data were collected at 25oC. The vapor pressure for pure water at
25oC is 23.76 mm Hg.
a. 46.8
b. 93.6
c. 68.4
d. 64.8
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28. A solution boils at 102.3 C. Analysis of the components of the solution tells us that there
are 150 grams of nonelectrolyte dissolved in 650 grams of water. Calculate the molecular
weight of the solute.
a. 102.8
b. 34.3
c. 68.5
d. 51.4
29. A solution is produced by dissolving 56 grams of an unknown nonelectrolyte in 100
grams of water. The freezing point of the solution is3.45oC. Calculate the molecular
weight of the solute
a. 302
b. 203
c. 151
d. 100
30. A 0.2 molal aqueous solution of KCl freezes at 0.680C. Calculate the osmotic pressure
at 0C. Assume volume to be that of pure H2O.
a. 8.2 atm
b. 4.1 atm
c. 2.05 atm
d. 3.15 atm
31. A 0.01 molal solution of K3Fe(CN)6 freezes at 0.062C. What is the apparent
percentage of dissociation?
a. 34%
b. 56%
c. 78%
d. 68%
32. A solution is 0.5 molar in MgSO4, 0.1 molar in AlCl3, and 0.2 molar in (NH4) 2SO4. What
is the total ionic strength?
a. 3.2
b. 6.4
c. 2.5
d. 1.6