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Ch.10 - Gases
Chapter 10, Problem 27b

(b) If a car tire is filled to a pressure of 220.6 kPa measured at 24 °C, what will be the tire pressure if the tires heat up to 49 °C during driving?

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Key Concepts

Here are the essential concepts you must grasp in order to answer the question correctly.

Ideal Gas Law

The Ideal Gas Law relates the pressure, volume, temperature, and number of moles of a gas through the equation PV = nRT. In this context, it helps us understand how the pressure of the gas in the tire changes with temperature, assuming the volume remains constant.
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Charles's Law

Charles's Law states that the volume of a gas is directly proportional to its temperature when pressure is held constant. Although the volume of the tire does not change, this law illustrates how temperature affects pressure, which is crucial for calculating the new pressure at a higher temperature.
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Pressure-Temperature Relationship

The pressure-temperature relationship indicates that as the temperature of a gas increases, its pressure also increases if the volume is constant. This principle is essential for predicting the change in tire pressure as the temperature rises from 24 °C to 49 °C.
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Textbook Question

An open-end manometer containing mercury is connected to a container of gas, as depicted in Sample Exercise 10.2. What is the pressure of the enclosed gas in torr in each of the following situations? (a) The mercury in the arm attached to the gas is 15.4 mm higher than in the one open to the atmosphere; atmospheric pressure is 0.985 atm.

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You have a gas at 25 C confined to a cylinder with a movable piston. Which of the following actions would double the gas pressure? (a) Lifting up on the piston to double the volume while keeping the temperature constant (b) Heating the gas so that its temperature rises from 25 C to 50 C, while keeping the volume constant (c) Pushing down on the piston to halve the volume while keeping the temperature constant.

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Textbook Question

(a) Amonton's law expresses the relationship between pressure and temperature. Use Charles's law and Boyle's law to derive the proportionality relationship between P and T.

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(b) What is the molar volume of an ideal gas at STP?

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(d) If you measure pressure in bars instead of atmospheres, calculate the corresponding value of R in L-bar/mol-K.

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Suppose you are given two 2-L flasks and told that one contains a gas of molar mass 28, the other a gas of molar mass 56, both at the same temperature and pressure. The mass of gas in the flask A is 1.0 g and the mass of gas in the flask B is 2.0 g. Which flask contains the gas of molar mass 28, and which contains the gas of molar mass 56?
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