1. If I burn 0.315 moles of hexane (C 6H14) in a bomb calorimeter containing 5.

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liters of water, what’s the enthalpy change of combustion of hexane is the water
temperature rises 55.4 oC? The heat capacity of water is 4.184 J/g oC.

2. What is the specific heat of aluminum if the temperature of a 28.4 g sample of

aluminum is increased by 8.1oC

3. What is the specific heat of silicon if the temperature of a 4.11 g sample of

silicon is increased by 3.8 oC when 11.1 J of heat is added?

4. If 40.5 J of heat is added to a 15.4 g sample of silver, how much will the
temperature increase by? The specific heat of silver is 0.235 J/goC.
5. Determine enthalpy change of formation to determine the change in enthalpy for
each of these reactions. 

a) NaOH(s) + HCl(g)  NaCl(s) + H2O(g)

b) 2 CO(g) + O2(g)  2 CO2(g) 

c) CH4(g) + 2 O2(g)  CO2(g) + 2 H2O(l) 

d) 2 H2S(g) + 3 O2(g)  2 H2O(l) + 2 SO2(g) 

e) 2 NO(g) + O2(g)  2 NO2(g) 

6. Determine enthalpy change of combustion to determine the change in enthalpy

for each of these reactions. 
a) 3 H2 (g) + O3 (g)  3 H2O (g)

b) 2 NO (g) + O2 (g)  2 NO2 (g)

c) N2O (g) + NO2 (g)  3 NO (g)

7. Enthalpy changes can be calculated using enthalpy changes of combustion.

Use these values to calculate the standard enthalpy change of the reaction below:

4 C (s) + 5H2 (g)  C4H10 (l)

8. The combustion of methane (CH4) releases 890.4 kj/mol of heat. That is, when
one mole of methane is burn ed, 890.4 kj are given off to the suroundings. This
means that the products have 890.4 kj less energy stored in the bonds than the
reactants. Thus for the reaction = -890.4 kj. A negative symbol for
indicates an exothermic reaction.

CH4 (g) + 2 O2  CO2 (g) + 2 H2O kj

a. How much energy is given off when 2.00 mol of CH4 are burned?

b. How much energy is released when 22.4 g of CH4 are burned?