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Chapter 13: Temperature, Kinetic Theory, and the Gas Laws
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(a) 9.35 mL
(b) 7.56 mL
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We know how the length changes with temperature: . Also we know that the volume of a cube is related to its length by , so the final volume is then . Substituting for gives
Now, because is small, we can use the binomial expansion:
So writing the length terms in terms of volumes gives and so
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(a) 0.136 atm
(b) 0.135 atm. The difference between this value and the value from part (a) is negligible.
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(d) No. The final temperature needed is much too low to be easily achieved for a large object.
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Integrated Concepts
The boiling point of water increases with depth because pressure increases with depth. At what depth will fresh water have a boiling point of , if the surface of the water is at sea level?
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To get an idea of the small effect that temperature has on Archimedes’ principle, calculate the fraction of a copper block’s weight that is supported by the buoyant force in water and compare this fraction with the fraction supported in water.
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Unreasonable Results
(a) How many moles per cubic meter of an ideal gas are there at a pressure of and at ? (b) What is unreasonable about this result? (c) Which premise or assumption is responsible?
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(b) It’s unreasonably large.
(c) At high pressures such as these, the ideal gas law can no longer be applied. As a result, unreasonable answers come up when it is used.
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The temperature inside a supernova explosion is said to be . (a) What would the average velocity of hydrogen atoms be? (b) What is unreasonable about this velocity? (c) Which premise or assumption is responsible?
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(b) The velocity is too high—it’s greater than the speed of light.
(c) The assumption that hydrogen inside a supernova behaves as an idea gas is responsible, because of the great temperature and density in the core of a star. Furthermore, when a velocity greater than the speed of light is obtained, classical physics must be replaced by relativity, a subject not yet covered.
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- a.Having a positive slope
- b.Passing through the origin
- c.Having zero pressure at a certain negative temperature
- d.Approaching zero pressure as temperature approaches infinity
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| Average Speed of Molecules | Average Force on Container | |
| (a) | Greater for gas X | Greater for gas X |
| (b) | Greater for gas X | The forces cannot be compared without knowing the volumes of the gases. |
| (c) | Greater for gas Y | Greater for gas Y |
| (d) | Greater for gas Y | The forces cannot be compared without knowing the volumes of the gases. |
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This graph shows the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution of molecular speeds in an ideal gas for two temperatures, T1 and T2. Which of the following statements is false?
- a.T1 is lower than T2
- b.The rms speed at T1 is higher than that at T2.
- c.The peak of each graph shows the most probable speed at the corresponding temperature.
- d.None of the above.
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