How reliable is the perfect gas law in comparison with the van der waals equation? calculate the difference in pressure of 10.00g of co2 confined to a container of volume 100cm3 at 25 degree centigrade between treating it as a perfect gas and a van der waals gas

The perfect gas law is reliable at the limit of pressure tending to zero. That is to say, at low pressure. The Van der Waals law instead can be used at higher pressures.

Explanation:

The perfect law equation is

The perfect gas law considers that the gas molecules have no interaction between each other and each molecule has null volume. This condition happens at the limit of pressure tending to zero.

The Van der Waals equation is

On the other hand, the Van der Waals law has two extra terms, one to consider the interaction of the molecules (n2a/V2) and other to consider the volume of the molecules (V-nb). These terms make a better approximation to a real gas.

Using the two equations to calculate the pressure (P) for CO2 with

V = 100cm3 = 0.1L

T = 25ºC = 298K

n = 10g/(44g/mol) = 0.23mol

a = 3.658 atm.L2/mol2

b = 0.0429 L/mol

With the perfect law equation:

With the Van del Waals law:

At this case the difference between the results of the two equations is due to the big mass of CO2 which produce a high pressure.

answer; 4 electrons;

answer : third trial had the contaminated sample and the correct value for dhrxn should be 1000 kj/mol

explanation :

let us write down the given equations

equation 1 :

equation 2 :

equation 3 :

let us use hess's law to find out which 2 equations can be added to get the third equation.

let us reverse equation 2 and multiply it by 2. the new equation that we get is,

equation 4 :

let us add equation 1 & 4

the above equation is similar to equation 3 but has different value for dhrxn.

therefore third trial had the contaminated sample and the correct value for dhrxn should be 1000 kj/mol