Technological Institute of the Philippines Last Name SCORE

Department of Environmental and Sanitary Engineering

First Name
Department of Chemistry
Section
ECHEM001 – Chemistry for Engineers
Date and Time Submitted
Problem Set #1

Instructions
1. Use clean sheets of yellow pad paper or Units and Measurements
recycled bond papers as your answer sheets.
2. A copy of this Problem Set should be stapled Convert the following:
on top of your answer sheets. 1. 12.5 yards → meters
3. Always show your solution. No solution 2. 5.5 square inches → square centimeters
means no credit/score for that item. 3. 10 inches → centimeters
4. Write legibly. No credit/score for unreadable 4. 15.5 yards → meters
handwriting 5. 11 gallons → liters
5. Sign the Honor Code at the end of the 6. 2.5 pounds → kilograms
questions. 7. 25 cubic feet → cubic meters
8. 5.2 gallons → cubic centimeters
Volume of Solids 9. 21 miles → kilometers
10. 24.5 cubic inches → milliliters
1. This rectangular storage tank is full of white paint. 11. 11.5 square feet → square meters
12. 7.5 feet → meters
a. Calculate the volume of 13. 19.5 cubic feet → cubic meters
paint in the tank in cubic 14. 17 cubic inches → liters
centimeters (cm3). 15. 15 feet → meters
b. Calculate the volume of 16. 112 °C → °F
this cylindrical paint tin. 17. 312 °F → °C
18. -22 °F → °C
19. 35 °C → K
20. 384 K → °F

c. How many times can the
paint tin be completely filled
from the tank?
2. This cast iron pipe has an internal diameter of 16
centimetres and an outside diameter of 20
centimetres. The pipe is 1·5 metres long. Calculate
the volume of iron needed to make the pipe.
Solve:
1. What is the density of carbon dioxide gas if 0.196 g
occupies a volume of 100 mL?
2. A block of wood 3.0 cm on each side and has a
mass of 27 g. What is the density of this block?
3. An irregularly shaped stone was lowered into a
graduated cylinder holding a volume of water equal
to 2.0 mL. The height of the water rose to 7.0 mL. If
the mass of the stone was 25 g, what was its
density?

4. Five mL of ethanol has a mass of 3.9 g and 5.0 mL

3. How much liquid feeding will this semi-cylindrical
pig-trough hold?
of benzene has a mass of 4.4 g. Which liquid is
denser?
5. Silver has a density of 10.5 g/cm3 and gold has a
density of 19.3 g/cm3. Which would have a greater
mass, 5 cm3 of silver or 5 cm3 of gold?

6. Five mL of ethanol has a mass of 3.9 g and 5.0 mL

of benzene has a mass of 4.4 g. Which liquid is
4. Water is poured into this conical flask at the rate of denser?
50 milliliters per second.
7. A graduated cylinder has 22 mL of water placed in it.
a. Calculate the volume of An irregularly shaped rock is then placed in the
the flask. graduated cylinder and the volume of the rock and
b. How long will it take, to water in the graduated cylinder now reads 30 mL .
the nearest second, to fill The mass of the rock is 24 g.
the flask to the top? a. Find the volume of the rock.
b. Find the density of the rock.
5. This football is fully inflated. 8. A flask that has a mass of 345.8 g is filled with 225
Calculate the volume of air inside mL of carbon tetrachloride. The mass of the flask
the football if the ball’s diameter is and carbon tetrachloride is found to be 703.55 g.
24 cm and the material of the Calculate the density in g/mL and kg/L.
football is 1cm thick.
HONOR CODE I affirm that I have not
6. This shape consists of a given or received any unauthorized
cone, a cylinder and a
help on this problem set, and that this Signature over Printed Name
hemisphere. Calculate
work is my own. If proven guilty of
its total volume.
cheating (of any kind), I will accept a
grade of 0 (zero) in this problem set. Date