This document contains slides from a chapter on gases in a general chemistry textbook. It covers various gas laws including Boyle's law, Charles' law, Avogadro's law, Dalton's law of partial pressures, and the kinetic molecular theory. Concepts discussed include pressure, the relationship between volume and pressure, temperature and volume, molar volume, the ideal gas equation, real gases, and applications of gas laws such as molar mass determination and gas density. Diagrams illustrate gas behavior and experimental determinations of gas properties.
The greenish yellow gas is the brownish red gas is above a small pool of liquid bromine; the violet gas is in contact with grayish-black solid iodine. Most other common gases, such as CO2, O2, N2 and H2 are colorless.
All the interconnected vessels fill to the same height. As a result, the liquid pressures are the same despite the different shapes and volumes of the containers.
Arrows represent the pressure exerted by the atmosphere.
The liquid mercury levels are equal inside and outside the open-end tube.
(b) A column of mercury 760 mm high is maintained in the closed-end tube, regardless of the overall height of the tube
(c) as long as it exceeds 760 mm.
(d) A column of mercury fills a closed-end tube that is shorter than 760 mm. In the closed-end tubes in (b) and (c), the region above the mercury column is devoid of air and contains only a trace of mercury vapor.
1 atm = 760 mm Hg when
δHg = 13.5951 g/cm3 (0°C)
g = 9.80665 m/s2
Mention here that Pbar refers to MEASURED ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE in the text.
The units torr and millimeters of mercury are not strictly equal. This is because 760 Torr is exactly equal to 101,325 Pa but 760 mmHg is only approximately equal to 101,325 Pa (that is, to about six or seven significant figures). The difference between a torr and a millimeter of mercury is too small to worry about, except in highly accurate work.
The possible relationships between barometric pressure and a gas pressure under measurement are pictured here and described in Example 6–2. If Pgas and Pbar are expressed in mmHg, then ΔP is numerically equal to the height h expressed in millimeters.
When the temperature and amount of gas are held constant, gas volume is inversely proportional to the pressure: A doubling of the pressure causes the volume to decrease to one-half its original value.
Three different gases show this behavior with temperature.
Temperature at which the volume of a hypothetical gas becomes 0 is the absolute zero of temperature.
The hypothetical gas has mass, but no volume, and does not condense into a liquid or solid.
Note that the text does not use the older standard of 1 atm. 1 Bar is the IUPAC definition of Standard conditions of temperature and pressure.
Wooden cube is 28.2 cm on edge and has approximately the same volume as one mole of gas at 1 atm and 0°C.
Basketball = 7.5 L, Soccer ball = 6.0 L and Football = 4.4 L
Dalton thought H + O → HO so ratio should have been 1:1:1. So Avogadro’s hypothesis is critical. This identifies the relationship between stoichiometry and gas volume.
Any gas whose behavior conforms to the ideal gas equation is called an ideal or perfect gas.
R is the gas constant. Substitute and calculate.
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Gay Lussac’s Law of combining volumes states that gases react by volumes in the ratio of small whole numbers. Two examples of stoichiometric and combining volume calculations follow.
Partial pressure is the pressure of a component of gas that contributes to the overall pressure.
Partial volume is the volume that a gas would occupy at the total pressure in the chamber.
Ratio of partial volume to total volume, or of partial pressure to total pressure is the MOLE FRACTION.
Total pressure of wet gas is equal to atmospheric pressure (Pbar) if the water level is the same inside and outside. At specific temperatures you know the partial pressure of water.
Can calculate Pgas and use it stoichiometric calculations.
Natural laws are explained by theories. Gas law led to development of kinetic-molecular theory of gases in the mid-nineteenth century.
The percentages of molecules with a certain speed are plotted as a function of the speed. Three different speeds are noted on the graph. The most probable speed is approximately 1500 m/s; the average speed is approximately 1700 m/s; and the root-mean-square
speed is approximately 1800 m/s. Notice that um < uav < urms.
The relative numbers of molecules with a certain speed
are plotted as a function of the speed. Note the effect
of temperature on the distribution for oxygen
molecules and the effect of mass—oxygen must be
heated to a very high temperature to have the same
distribution of speeds as does hydrogen at 273 K.
Only those molecules with the correct speed to pass through all rotating disks will
reach the detector, where they can be counted. By changing the rate of rotation of
the disks, the complete distribution of molecular speeds can be determined.
(a) Diffusion is the passage of one substance through another. In this case, the H2 initially diffuses farther through the N2 because it is lighter, although eventually a complete random mixing occurs. (b) Effusion is the passage of a substance through a pinhole or porous
membrane into a vacuum. In this case, the lighter H2 effuses faster across the empty space than does the N2.
Attractive forces of the red molecules for the green molecule cause the green molecule to exert less force when it collides with the wall
than if these attractions did not exist.
Values of the compressibility factor less than one signify that intermolecular forces of attraction are largely responsible for deviations
from ideal gas behavior. Values greater than one are found when the volume of the gas molecules themselves is a significant fraction of the total gas volume.
A number of equations can be used for real gases, equations that apply over a wider range of temperatures and pressures than the ideal gas equation. Such equations are not as general as the ideal gas equation. They contain terms that have specific, but different, values for different gases. Such equations must correct for the volume associated with the molecules themselves and for intermolecular forces of attraction. Of all the equations that chemists use for modeling the behavior of real gases, the van der Waals equation, equation (6.26), is the simplest to use and interpret.
The van der Waals equation uses a modified pressure factor, in place of P and a modified volume factor, in place of V. In the modified volume factor, the term nb accounts for the volume of the molecules themselves. The parameter b is called the excluded volume per mole, and, to a rough approximation, it is the volume that one mole of gas occupies when it condenses to a liquid.