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Gas Laws

Boyle’s Gas Law

1. What are the changing variables in Boyle’s law?

a. pressure

2. What relationship, inverse/direct, do these variables have?

a. Direct relationship

3. Explain your answer to #2

a. It is direct because they are multiplied together.

4. Which variable(s) are held constant?

a. temperature

Boyle’s Law problems:

P1v1=P2v2
What is the formula for Boyle’s law?

1. A gas as a volume of 6.85 L at a pressure of 0.650 atm. What is the volume of the gas if the
pressure is decreased to 0.435 atm?

2. If a gas has a volume of 1560 mL at a pressure of 81.2 kPa, what is its volume if the pressure is
increased to 253 kPa?

3. If 200.0 mL of a gas measured at standard pressure (1 atm), what pressure will the gas be at if
its volume changes to 305ml?
 Charles’ Law

Using what you know about the Charles’ Gas Laws

1. What are the changing variables in Charles’ law?

Volume and temperature
2. What relationship, inverse/direct, do these variables have?
Inverse
3. Explain your answer to #2
The reason is because the variables are divided.

4. Which variable(s) are held constant?

Pressure
5. What type of container, rigid or elastic, is needed to apply Charles’ Law?
a. Rigid ping pong ball ___________

6. Why do car tires sometimes look flat on a COLD morning when they looked fine on the
warm evening before?
a. Because the temperature is lower meaning there is less pressure because the
particles move slower
Charles’ Gas Law problems:

What is the formula for Charles’ Law?

1. A balloon has a volume of 325 mL at 17⁰C. What is the temperature if the volume increases to
392 mL?

2. A quantity of gas has a volume of 3.66 X 104 L. What will be the volume if the temperature is
changed from 455 K to 50.0⁰C?
 3. A quantity of gas has a final volume of 3.66 X 104 L when it is at a 455 K. What was the initial
volume, if the original temperature was 50.0⁰C?

Gay-Lussac’s Gas Law

1. What are the changing variables in Gay-Lussac’s law?

a. Pressure and temperature
2. What relationship, inverse/direct, do these variables have?
a. Direct
3. Explain your answer to #2
a. Volume is constant and temp is independent, and pressure is dependent.
4. Which variable(s) are held constant?
a. volume

Gayy-Lussac’s Law problems:

What is the formula for Gay-Lussac’s law?

Gay-lussac’s problems

1. A confined quantity of gas is at a pressure of 2.50 atm and a temperature of -22.0⁰C. What is
the pressure if the temperature increases to 22.0⁰C?

2. What is the temperature of a confined gas, if the pressure is 2.35 atm and the pressure drops to
1.15 atm at 25°C?

3. The pressure of a confined gas was 425 atm at 75.3°C and drops to 356 atm, what is the new
temperature of the gas?

WHO’S LAW IS THIS???

1. _________________The original volume of a gas measured at standard temperature is 1000.0

mL. If the pressure on the gas remains the same, what volume will the gas occupy at 500.0 K?
2.__________________The original volume of a gas measured at 600.0 mL has a pressure of 200.0
mmHg. If the temperature remains unchanged, what volume will the gas occupy if the pressure is
changed to 67.0 kPa

3____________________ A gas exerts a pressure of 6.80 kPa at 40.0oC. What happens to the
temperature if the volume of the gas remains constant, but the pressure is increased to 2.50 atm?

4_____________________The temperature of 350.0 mL of a confined gas is changed from standard

temperature to 400.0oC. What volume does the gas now occupy if the pressure remains at 1.00
atm?