PORKY’S FLU QUESTIONNAIRE for M-2

Hello everybody! This questionnaire is intended to help you in studying the

chapter about gases. We will check it in the class once we are back. After solving it
try to solve the problems at the end of the chapter. Skip the first one

1- List the properties that gases have but liquids and solids do not.
2- The particles in the air are about twice as heavy as the particles of water.
However, the mass of 1 litre of water is 1 kg and the mass of 1 litre of
atmospheric air is just 0.0012 kg! Can you suggest a reason for this being so?
3- What is an “ideal gas”? Do ideal gases exist?
4- In what cases will real gases show a similar behaviour to that of an ideal gas?
5- Tension is the stress on a material produced by the pull of forces tending to
cause extension or compression. Name three examples of objects under tension.
6- If a force acts on a wide surface the tension (deformation) it produces is small. If
it is applied at a small surface ………………………………….
7- Tension and pressure in gases and liquids have the same meaning. Do pressure
and force have the same meaning? What is the relationship between both
magnitudes?
8- A gas makes pressure against the walls of the container it is enclosed. Where
does the force that produces this pressure come from?
9- A gas is inside a syringe. If the piston is moved inwards the volume of the gas
inside the syringe will …………. . The particles will collide …….. frequently
against the walls and consequently its pressure will …………….
10- As temperature increases the particles in a gas will move ……… , collisions will
be ……….. energetic and so will the ……. against the walls of the container.
Hence the pressure …………………………………………… .
11- Examine the diagram labelled “Boyle’s Law”. It shows a gas after some changes
have been made. Did the number of particles change? Did the pressure on the
piston change? (the pressure on the piston equals the inner pressure) Did the
temperature change? Did the volume change?
12- Find the product of pressure and volume on both sides. What do you get?
13- Suppose you have 6 loads on the piston instead of three: can you tell the
pressure that will be read on the manometer? Can you guess the volume of the
gas provided the temperature didn’t change? The temperature is given in K:
calculate it in degrees Celsius.
14- Repeat exercise (11) but using the diagram labelled “Charles’ and Gay-Lussac’s
laws”
15- Find the ratio between volume and temperature on both sides. What do you get?
Remember that the temperature is given in Kelvin.
16- Calculate both temperatures in degrees Celsius and see if your previous result
holds.
17- Now write the three laws taking care to state what is being changed, what
changes as a consequence and what must be kept constant in each case.
18- Now solve problems from Nr 2 on (at the end of the chapter).

Good Luck!