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Real Gases

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

You can identify certain qualities of a gas by using the Ideal Gas Law, given by the equation: ___

a)

P/V = nRT

b)

P = VnRT

c)

PVn = RT

d)

PV = nRT

2.

In the ideal gas law, R refers to the ___

a)

universal gas constant

b)

pressure of the gas

c)

real gas value

d)

number of moles of the gas

3.

The problem with the ideal gas equation is that it only works ___

a)

on real life situations

b)

under hypothetical ideal circumstances

c)

at very low temperatures

d)

at very high pressures

4.

Who figured out the "tricks" to understand and describe how gases behave in real life?

a)

Robert Boyle

b)

Fritz Haber

c)

Svante Arrhenius

d)

Johannes Diderik van der Waals

5.

Van der Waals, the first of 10 children, was born in ___

a)

1817 in Denmark

b)

1827 in England

c)

1837 in the Netherlands

d)

1847 in Germany

6.

A gas starts to deviate from what the ideal gas law predicts when ___

a)

the particles are dispersed

b)

the particles are crowded

c)

under low pressure

d)

at high temperatures

7.

Finally at the age of 36, after trying for roughly two decades van der Waals was awarded ___

a)

a high school diploma

b)

a doctorate in theoretical physics

c)

a Nobel Prize for his work

d)

a prize for Exceptional Spell-Casting

8.

What did van der Waals explain in his doctoral thesis?

a)

the value of absolute zero

b)

why real gases don't behave ideally

c)

the importance of closed systems

d)

solid state physics

9.

In 1910 when he was 73 years old, van der Waals was awarded ___

a)

a carpentry badge

b)

a doctorate in theoretical physics

c)

a Nobel Prize for his work

d)

an International Wizarding Order of Merit

10.

If the ideal gas law worked all the time, then PV divided by nRT should equal ___

a)

Avogadro's number

b)

one

c)

the universal gas constant

d)

the molar mass of the gas

11.

The value of PV/nRT was found to change with increasing ___

a)

pressure

b)

temperature

c)

volume

d)

voltage

12.

The amount that PV/nRT changes with pressure was found to be different for different ___

a)

gases

b)

temperatures

c)

R values

d)

isotopes

13.

By sealing gas in a container so the amount of gas is constant, what kind of system is created?

a)

a closed system

b)

an open system

c)

an isolated system

d)

a lymphatic system

14.

In a closed system, at constant temperature, the ideal gas laws says that any increase in pressure will cause ___

a)

the volume to increase at an equal rate

b)

the volume to decrease at an equal rate

c)

the number of moles to decrease at an equal rate

d)

the number of moles to increase at an equal rate

15.

The existence of atoms was disputed until mathematically proven to exist by ___

a)

Robert Brown in 1827

b)

Robert Boyle in 1691

c)

Albert Einstein in 1905

d)

Linus Pauling in 1954

16.

Van der Waal's correction to the volume term of the ideal gas law accounted for ____

a)

the interactions between molecules

b)

the thickness of the container walls

c)

the electron clouds of particles

d)

the space that the particles themselves take up

17.

In Van der Waal's gas equation, "b" is an experimentally determined constant that's different for ___

a)

every type of container

b)

every type of gas

c)

different temperatures

d)

different altitudes

18.

Even more so when they're close together, particles in real gases are ___

a)

attracted to each other

b)

repelled by each other

c)

massless

d)

mystical vapors

19.

Van der Waal's correction for P accounted for the decrease in pressure that's caused by ___

a)

electronegativity of molecules

b)

intermolecular attractions

c)

nuclear interactions

d)

the size of the particles

20.

For the calculations on the gas in Hank's balloon, using the "more accurate" van der Waals equation resulted in ___

a)

no difference in pressure

b)

a difference of 2 kilopascals

c)

a difference of 12 kilopascals

d)

122 kilopascals difference

21.

The ideal gas law states that reducing the volume of a container by a factor of 100 results in ___

a)

no pressure change

b)

10 times as much pressure

c)

100 times as much pressure

d)

400 times the pressure

22.

If you're planning a mission to the bottom of the Marianas Trench, which gas equation is the most accurate?

a)

the ideal gas law

b)

Boyle's law

c)

van der Waal's equation

d)

Charle's law