Q7. In our campus, there are approximately 30.000 students use 2.5 x 10° kJ of energy per day. Suppose all of that energy comes from a combustion of a carbon-hydrogen-oxygen compound in the presence of excess O2(g). 2.647 g sample of this gaseous carbon-hydrogen-oxygen compound that occupies a volume of 580 mL at 918,6 Torr and 24.00 °C. The products of the combustion of given amount are 5.059 g CO2(g), 3.106 g H2O(1) and enough heat to raise the temperature of the calorimeter assembly from 24.00 to 38.33 °C. What is the molecular formula of this unknown compound and how many kilograms of this compound are needed to provide enough daily energy to all students in campus? (The heat capacity of the calorimeter is 4.915 KJ°C.)
Ideal and Real Gases
Ideal gases obey conditions of the general gas laws under all states of pressure and temperature. Ideal gases are also named perfect gases. The attributes of ideal gases are as follows,
Gas Laws
Gas laws describe the ways in which volume, temperature, pressure, and other conditions correlate when matter is in a gaseous state. The very first observations about the physical properties of gases was made by Robert Boyle in 1662. Later discoveries were made by Charles, Gay-Lussac, Avogadro, and others. Eventually, these observations were combined to produce the ideal gas law.
Gaseous State
It is well known that matter exists in different forms in our surroundings. There are five known states of matter, such as solids, gases, liquids, plasma and Bose-Einstein condensate. The last two are known newly in the recent days. Thus, the detailed forms of matter studied are solids, gases and liquids. The best example of a substance that is present in different states is water. It is solid ice, gaseous vapor or steam and liquid water depending on the temperature and pressure conditions. This is due to the difference in the intermolecular forces and distances. The occurrence of three different phases is due to the difference in the two major forces, the force which tends to tightly hold molecules i.e., forces of attraction and the disruptive forces obtained from the thermal energy of molecules.
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