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Thermochemistry: PROBLEM SET #1: Chemistry For Engineers & Engineering Technologists

This document provides 20 practice problems related to thermochemistry. The problems cover topics like classifying reactions as endothermic or exothermic, calculating heat and internal energy changes, determining standard enthalpy and entropy values, and calculating Gibbs free energy. Students are asked to show their work and calculations to solve problems involving concepts like specific heat, heat of reaction, heat of formation, and equilibrium constants.

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Thermochemistry: PROBLEM SET #1: Chemistry For Engineers & Engineering Technologists

This document provides 20 practice problems related to thermochemistry. The problems cover topics like classifying reactions as endothermic or exothermic, calculating heat and internal energy changes, determining standard enthalpy and entropy values, and calculating Gibbs free energy. Students are asked to show their work and calculations to solve problems involving concepts like specific heat, heat of reaction, heat of formation, and equilibrium constants.

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Chemistry for Engineers & Engineering Technologists

Thermochemistry: PROBLEM SET #1


Name: ________________________________________ Score: ______________________
Course/Yr./Sec. ________________________________ Date: _______________________

General Instruction: Read and analyze the given problem below. Show your detailed computation and
box your final. No solution No credit.

1. Classify the following as endothermic or exothermic process.


a. photosynthesis c. combustion
b. respiration d. corrosion

2. A system release 495 kJ of heat and does 205 kJ of work on the surroundings. What is the change in
internal energy of the system?

3. The specific heat of water is 4.184 J/g °C. How many joules of heat will be removed from 2.00 g of
water when its temperature drops by 20.0°C?

4. Given 35 grams of each substance at an initial temperature of 30°C. What is the final temperature of
each substance when it absorbs 4.28 kJ of heat?

a. Lead (c = 0.128 J/ g °C)


b. Iron (c = 0.449 J/ g °C)
c. Copper (c = 0.385 J/ g °C)
d. Sand (c = 0.840 J/ g °C)

5. A gold block initially at 62.9°C is put into 120 grams of water at 25.8°C in a container. The mixture at
thermal equilibrium reached a temperature of 28.3°C. What is the mass of gold used?

6. A 25.2 grams of silver initially at 57.6°C is submerged into 84.3 grams of water at 26.9°C in an
insulated container. What is the final temperature of both substances at thermal equilibrium?

7. When 0.625 grams of ethanol (62H5OH) undergoes combustion in a bomb calorimeter attaining a
temperature difference of 2.8°C. Find the heat of the reaction for the combustion of ethanol in kJ/mol.
The heat capacity of the calorimeter is found to be 5.17 KJ/°C.

8. A calorimetry experiment was done to determine ∆H for the combustion of C6H12O6. A 2.34 g of
C6H12O6 was placed with 1.5 kg of water at an initial temperature of 25.0°C. As the combustion occur
the temperature raise by 2.00°C, calculate the ∆H from the data obtained, Ccal is 3.27 kJ/ °C.

9. The combustion of 1.00 mole of glucose, C6H12O6 liberates 1.90 x 103 kJ of heat. If 2.30 g of glucose
is burned in a calorimeter containing 0.560 kg of water, and the temperature of the assembly increases
from 22.5°C to 26.7°C, what is the heat capacity of the calorimeter?
Chemistry for Engineers & Engineering Technologists
Thermochemistry: PROBLEM SET #1
10. Indicate whether each of the following reactions is endothermic or exothermic:
a. C(s) + O2(g) → CO2(g) ∆H°rxn = 94.05 kJ
b. 4NH3(g) + 5 O2(g) → 4NO2(g) + 6 H2O (l) ∆H°rxn = - 1169.2 kJ
c. 2 PCl3(l) + O2(g) → OPCl3(g) ∆H°rxn = - 325.10 kJ

11. Calculate the value of ∆H°rxn for the reaction:


2 Fe2O3 (s) + 3 C(s) → 4 Fe(s) + 3 CO2(g) ∆H°rxn =
From the following enthalpy changes
Fe2O3 (s) + 3 CO (g) → 2 Fe(s) + 3 CO2(g) ∆H°rxn = -27.00 kJ
C(s) + CO2(g) → 2 CO(g) ∆H°rxn = 172.00 kJ

12. Calculate the value of ∆H°rxn for the reaction:


2 S(g) + 2 OF2(g) → SO2(g) + SF4 (g) ∆H°rxn =
Using the following thermochemical reactions
OF2 (g) + H2O(l) → O2(g) + 2 HF(g) ∆H°rxn = -277 kJ
SF4 (g) + 2 H2O (l) → SO2(g) + 4 HF(g) ∆H°rxn = -828 kJ
S(g) + O2(g) → SO2(g) ∆H°rxn = -297 kJ

13. Calculate the value of ∆H°rxn for the reaction:


N2H4(l) + O2(g) → N2(g) + 2 H2O (l) ∆H°rxn =
Using the following thermochemical reactions
N2O (g) + 3 H2 (g) → N2H4(l) + H2O (l) ∆H°rxn = -317.0 kJ
2 NH3(g) + 3 N2O (g) → 4 N2(g) + 3 H2O(l) ∆H°rxn = -1010.0 kJ
2 NH3(g) + ½ O2 (g) → N2H4(l) + H2O(l) ∆H°rxn = -143.0 kJ
H2(g) + ½ O2(g) → H2O (l) ∆H°rxn = -286.0 kJ

14. For the reaction:


CO(NH2)2 (aq) + H2O (l) → CO2 (g) + 2NH3(g)
The ∆S° and ∆H° is 354.8 J/K•mol and 119.2 kJ/mol, respectively. Calculate:
a. the standard entropy of urea
b. the standard enthalpy of formation of urea
c. the standard free energy change for the reaction
d. the standard free energy of formation of urea

15. A gas expanding against a constant pressure of 4.00 atm from 20.0L to 25.0 L absorbs 400 calories
of heat. What is the change in the internal energy of the gas?

16. For reaction: Na2CO3 (s) + 2 HCl (g) → NaCl(s) + CO2(g) + H2O (l) ∆H° is -144 kJ. What is ∆U?

17. The value of ∆U for the combustion of propane, C3H8, is -185.81 kJ. What is the heat of formation
of C3H8?
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Thermochemistry: PROBLEM SET #1
18. Hydrazine, N2H4, is a liquid substance used in rocket fuels. Its combustion liberates 622.4 kJ of
energy. For the reaction: N2H4(l) + O2(g) → N2(g) + 2 H2O (l) ∆H°rxn = -622.4 kJ
a. Calculate the ∆Hf of hydrazine.
b. The absolute entropy of hydrazine is 219.5 J/ K•mol, Use the standard thermodynamics value
to calculate the ∆S° for the reaction.
c. Use the standard enthalpy and entropy of the reaction to calculate the ∆G°.
d. Use the values of ∆G° for the reaction to calculate the Gibb’s free energy of formation of
hydrazine.

19. Coal can be converted to methane, a chief component of natural gas, according to the following
reaction: C(s) + 2 H2(g) ↔ CH4(g)
For which ∆H° and ∆S° for the reaction are -74.85 kJ/ mol and -80.69 J/K•mol, respectively.
Calculate the ∆G° and Kp for this reaction at 25°C.

20. For the reaction at 500 K: CO(g) + 2 H2(g) ↔ CH3OH (g) the Kp is 6.3 x 10-3. Calculate the ∆G for
this reaction.

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