CHEM125-E                                                                                                                                                    Fall, 2008

Hourly Exam # 2                                                                                                                                         Dunnivant

 

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There are 100 points.  The exam will be graded on a percentage basis.

 

The honor statement must be signed in order for your exam to be graded.

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NOTES:  NEATNESS COUNTS AND POORLY DISPLAYED OR PRESENTED WORK WILL BE DISCOUNTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-Show all work for partial credit.  

-CIRCLE FINAL ANSWERS in math problems

-Significant figures and units will be graded throughout the exam.

 

 

1.       (5 pts) A series of hydrocarbons, with increasing molecular weight, are placed in a reaction chamber with excess O2 and combusted.  Each hydrocarbon is combusted individually and the excess energy from the reactions is measured.  The DGo of formation of each gas is shown in the table below.

 

Compound                           DGo of formation

Methane                                 -50.5

Ethane                                     -32.0

Propane                                  -23.4

Butane                                     -15.0

 

Arrange the gases in order of increasing energy produced from each combustion reaction.  Hint:  no calculations are necessary, nor do you have the necessary information to make such a calculation!

 

Lowest amount of energy

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Highest amount of energy

 

 

 

2.       (5 pts) Which gas law explains the bends that deep-sea divers can get from rising too fast from deep in the water?  Give the equation, not necessarily the name of the law and explain (in the space below) how the bends develop.

 

 

 

3.       (5 pts) One (1.000) mole of He is experimentally determined to occupy a volume of 22.4 L at 0oC and 1 atm of pressure.  Atmospheric oxygen (O2) has eight times the molecular weight of He.  What volume will 1.000 mole of O2 occupy under the same conditions?

 

 

 

4.       (10 pts) A steel container with a volume of 0.350 L can withstand pressures up to 88.0 atm before exploding.  Find the mass of He that can be stored in this container at 299oK.

 

 

 

5.       (15 pts) Charles, of Charles gas law, used to make H2 to fill his balloon and float across the French countryside.  To produce the H2 he reacted Fe metal with HCl.  If his balloon needed 20.0 cubic meters to lift him, his wicker basket, one bottle of French wine, 100 g of Brie, and one baguette, how much Fe and HCl (in grams) did he need to start with assuming a complete reaction.  (1.000 m3 = 1000. L).  The reaction is

 

Fe(s)  +  HCl(aq)    FeCl3(s)  +  H2(g)

 

Also fill out a complete flow chart for your reaction.

 

 

6.       (5 pts) Explain the concept of a state function in the space provided below.

 

 

7.       (10 pts) Water has a specific heat of 4.184 J/g-oK and glass has a specific heat of 0.84 J/goK.  If 100. J of energy is put into equal masses of water and glass, and the energy is converted to heat, which one will heat up to a higher temperature?  Show calculations to confirm your answer; you will need to make a simple assumption.

 

 

8.       (10 pts) In class we calculated the energy needed to heat liquid water from one temperature to another based on the specific heat of water.  Water (H2O) has three phases, solid, liquid, and vapor, and each phase change has a heat conversion unit associated with it.  For example, you have to add heat to convert 1.0 g of ice at 0oC to liquid water at 0oC.  The phase change needs energy because some of the water-water bonds in ice need to be broken.  The total amount of energy needed to heat ice to water is the sum of the melting energy and the heating energy.  Given this basis, how much energy is needed to melt a 100. g piece of ice (at 0oC) and then heat it to 50.0oC?  The specific heat of water is 4.18 J/g-oC and the heat capacity of ice is 333 J/g.

 

 

 

9.       (5 pts) Estimate the sign, positive or negative, of DGo if DHo is positive and DSo is negative at a low temperature.

 

 

 

10.  (10 pts) You are studying a reaction that produces 1000kJ free energy/mol of reactant.

a)       Is the reaction endothermic or exothermic? (Think carefully)

 

 

b)      Would you expect the reaction to go forward (proceed spontaneously)?

 

 

c)       What limitations may be present concerning the progress of the reaction? (What may limit or keep the reaction from occurring.)

 

 

 

11.  (10 pts) For each pair of substances, choose the one that you expect to have the higher standard molar entropy value at 25oC. Circle the correct answer.

 

a)       PCl3(g) or PCl5(g)

 

b)      CH4(g) or CF4(g)

 

c)       C as a diamond or amorphous C

 

d)      Ar(g) or CO(g)

 

e)       Br2(g) or Br2(l)

 

 

12.  (15 pts) In our discussion of lake biochemistry and terminal electron acceptors, we observed that for a given food molecule (glucose), a range of energy can be obtained by microbes depending on the terminal electron acceptor that the organisms have evolved to use (i.e. the biochemical machinery they evolved with).  With oxygen, the reaction produces 2863kJ/mol of glucose and the values go down to 420 kJ/mole when CO2 is used as the terminal electron acceptor.  In each case one reagent (compound) is reduced and one is oxidized.  As I mentioned in class, very weird biochemical reactions occur in guts of tubeworms present near deep-sea ocean vents, but thermodynamic calculations must always be followed.  For the example below, two halves of a redox reaction occur and are controlled by enzymes in the organism; CO2 is transformed to glucose at the same time sulfide goes to sulfate, as shown in the reaction below.  The oxygen and carbon dioxide present in the process come from the ocean surface.

 

H2O      +      S-2      +      O2      +      CO2            C6H12O6      +      SO42-

 

 

Balance the equation noting that all stoichiometric coefficients may not be whole numbers.

 

 

 

Which reactant is being reduced?

 

 

Which reactant is being oxidized?

 

 

Which reactant is the food source?

 

 

Which reactant is the terminal electron acceptor?

 

 

Calculate DGo for the reaction given the following:


SUBSTANCE                                                                        
DGo (kJ/mol)

                  H2O                                                                                                 -237.1

                  S-2                                                                                                     83.7

                  O2                                                                                                      Standard State

                  CO2                                                                                                  -386.0

                  C6H12O6                                                                                       -910.4

                  SO4-2                                                                                               -744.6

 

 

What do your results predict about the quality of life for these organisms?

 

 

 

 

(3 pts) Bonus:  Who is your favorite musician (of all time) and what is their best song?