Gas Law Problems

Boyles’s Law
1. A gas has a volume of 300 mL at 300 mm Hg. What will its volume be if the pressure is changed to 500 mm Hg?

2. A gas has a volume of 460 mL at 500. mm Hg. What will be the volume at 1.2 atm?

3. A gas has a volume of 5 liters at 3 atm. To expand the volume to 7500 ml, what the new pressure (in atm)

Charles’ Law
4. A gas has a volume of 4.0 liters at 50. ​ C. What will its volume be (in liters) at 100​ C?
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5. A gas has a volume of 350 mL at 45 ​ C. If the volume changes to 400 mL, what is the new temperature? (answer in ​ C)
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Gay-Lussac’s Law
6. The gases in a hair spray can are at a temperature of 27oC and a pressure of 30 lb/in2. If the gases in the can reach a pressure of 90 lbs/in2,
the can will explode. To what temperature must the gases be raised in order for the can to explode? Assume constant volume.
7. Maybelline Cousteau’s backup oxygen tank reads 900 mmHg while on her boat, where the temperature is 27 oC. When she dives down to
the bottom of an unexplored methane lake on a recently-discovered moon of Neptune, the temperature will drop down to –183 oC. What will
the pressure in her backup tank be at that temperature?

Combined Gas Law

8. A gas has a volume of 39 liters at STP. What will its volume be at 4.0 atm and 25 oC?

9. 400. mL of a gas is contained at 300. mm Hg and 0.00 oC. What will its volume be in mL at 140. mm Hg and 10.0 oC?

10. 500. mL of gas is contained at STP. The volume changes to 560 mL at 20. oC. What is the pressure (in atm)?

Avogadro’s Law and Molar Volume at STP

11. 50 g of nitrogen (N2) has a volume of ___ liters at STP.

12. Consider the reaction: 2H2(g) + O2(g) → 2H2O(g). What mass of oxygen is consumed at STP by 100. g H2? What volume
of water forms if you have the exact stoichiometric ratio of hydrogen to oxygen? Assume the reaction condition stays at STP
throughout.
13. What is the density of carbon dioxide at STP in two significant figures?

Dalton’s Law
14. A metal tank contains three gases: oxygen, helium, and nitrogen. If the partial pressures of the three gases in the tank are
35 atm of O2, 5 atm of N2, and 25 atm of He, what is the total pressure inside of the tank?

15. Blast furnaces give off many unpleasant and unhealthy gases. If the total air pressure is 0.99 atm, the partial pressure of
carbon dioxide is 0.05 atm, and the partial pressure of hydrogen sulfide is 0.02 atm, what is the partial pressure of the remaining
air?

16. If the air from problem 15 contains 22% oxygen, what is the partial pressure of oxygen near a blast furnace?

Graham’s Law Problems

17. A certain gas effuses 4 times as fast as oxygen gas. What is the molar mass of the unknown gas?

18. A compound effuses through a porous cylinder 5.71 times slower than helium. What is its molar mass?

19. If 0.00251 mol of NH3 effuse through a hole in 2.47 min, how much HCl would effuse in the same time?
20. A sample of N2 effuses through a hole in 38.00 seconds. What must be the molecular weight of gas that effuses in 60.45
seconds under identical conditions?

Mixed
1. A gas occupies 3.5L at 2.5 mm Hg pressure. What is the volume at 10 mm Hg at the same temperature?

2. A constant volume of oxygen is heated from 100°C to 185°C. The initial pressure is 4.1 atm. What is the final pressure?

3. A sample of 25L of NH3 gas at 10°C is heated at constant pressure until it fills a volume of 50L. What is the new
temperature in °C?

4. An unknown gas weighs 34g and occupies 6.7L at 2 atm and 245K. What is its molecular weight?

5. An ideal gas occupies 400ml at 270 mm Hg and 65°C. If the pressure is changed to 1.4 atm and the temperature is
increased to 100°C, what is the new volume?

6. What is the volume of 23g of neon gas at 1°C and a pressure of 2 atm?
7. The pressure is 6.5 atm when 2.3 moles of Br2 gas occupies 9.3 L. What is the temperature in °C?

8. A 600mL balloon is filled with helium at 700mm Hg barometric pressure. The balloon is released and climbs to an
altitude where the barometric pressure is 400mm Hg. What will the volume of the balloon be if, during the ascent, the
temperature drops from 24 to 5°C?

9. An unknown gas has a volume of 200L at 5 atm and -140°C. What is its volume at STP?

10. In an autoclave, a constant amount of steam is generated at a constant volume. Under 1.00 atm pressure the steam
temperature is 100°C. What pressure setting should be used to obtain a 165°C steam temperature for the sterilization of
surgical instruments?