Drill: Calorimetry

Answer each problem in as sheets of paper as necessary. Show complete solutions. Box the final answer.

1. When 5.03 g of solid potassium hydroxide are dissolved in 100.0 mL of distilled water in a coffee-cup
calorimeter, the temperature of the liquid increases from 23.0°C to 34.7°C. The density of water in this
temperature range averages 0.9969 g/cm3. What is ΔHsoln (in kilojoules per mole)? Assume that the
calorimeter absorbs a negligible amount of heat and, because of the large volume of water, the specific
heat of the solution is the same as the specific heat of pure water. (HINT: A coffee-cup calorimeter is
also a constant-pressure calorimeter like the styroball calorimeter we used in class.)

2. A coffee-cup calorimeter contains 50.0 mL of distilled water at 22.7°C. Solid ammonium bromide (3.14
g) is added to the water and the solution is stirred, giving a final temperature of 20.3°C. Using the same
assumptions as in #1, find ΔHsoln for NH4Br (in kilojoules per mole).

3. A student heats a 5.0 g sample of an unknown metal to a temperature of 207 ∘C, and then drops the
sample into a coffee-cup calorimeter containing 36.0 g of water at 25.0 ∘C. After thermal equilibrium
has been established, the final temperature of the water in the calorimeter is 26.0 ∘C. What is the
specific heat of the unknown metal? (The specific heat of water is 4.18 J/g∘C)

4. 22.99 g sample of sodium is reacted with 1.0 L of water in a constant pressure calorimeter as follows:

2Na(s) + 2H2O(l) → 2NaOH(aq) + H2(g)

The temperature of the water goes from 20 °C to 65 °C. Assume that the volume of the solution remains
1.0 L, but that the density changes to 1.02 g/mL and the specific heat changes to 4.00 J/g-°C. How much
heat is generated for every mole of H2(g) produced?