Gas Laws Problem Set 2

Combined Gas Law

The Combined Gas Law

1. When is the combined gas law used?
2. What three laws are combined in the combined gas law?
3. What is the equation for the combined gas law?
4. Consider the equation for the combined gas law. If T1 and T2 are constant, you are left with whose
law?
5. Whose law is left if P1 and P2 are constant?
6. Whose law is left if V1 and V2 are constant?

Problems:
7. An oxygen sample has a volume of 190 cm3 when its temperature is 28 °C and its pressure is 30.8
kPa. What volume will the gas occupy at STP?

8. A 212 dm3 sample of a gas exerts a pressure of 42.4 kPa when its temperature is 38°C. What
volume would it occupy at 33.3 kPa and 34 °C?

9. A sample of a gas has a volume of 850 cm3 at a temp of 27 °C and a pressure of 85 kPa. What is the
pressure of the gas when the volume is 752 cm3 and the temperature is 15 °C?

10. A quantity of a gas has a volume of 200 dm3 at 17 °C and 106.6 kPa. To what temperature must the
gas be cooled for its volume to be reduced to 150 dm3 at a pressure of 98.6 kPa?

11. When extended, a bicycle pump has a volume of .952 dm3 at STP. What is its pressure when the
pump is compressed to a new volume of 0.225 dm3 and 278 K?

12. A 5 L air sample at a temperature of -30 °C has a pressure of 107 kPa. What is the new pressure if
the temperature is raised to 100 °C and the volume expands to 6.8 L?

13. A 3.5 L gas sample at 20 °C and a pressure of 86.7 kPa is allowed to expand to a volume of 8 L. The
final pressure of the gas is .52 atm. What is the final temperature of the gas in degrees Celsius?

14. At ground level, a helium-filled weather balloon has a volume of 335 L at 20 °C and 775 mm Hg.
The balloon will reach an altitude where the temperature is –28 °C and the pressure is 90.5 kPa.
What is the volume of the balloon at the higher altitude?

15. The weather balloon in the above problem will burst if its volume reaches 410 L. At what
temperature will the balloon burst if the pressure at bursting is .525 atm? Assume the same initial
conditions as stated above.