1. The pressure outside a jet plane flying 4.

A barometer is placed in open space of

at high altitude falls considerably below laboratory of weather bureau. If the
level
atmospheric pressure at sea level. The air of mercury in the barometer falls
consid-
inside the cabin must therefore be pres- erably, it will represent
surized to protect the passengers. What (a) normal weather
is the pressure (in atmosphere) in the (b) very slow speed of wind after some
cabin if the barometer reading is 688 mm time
of Hg? (c) very high speed of wind after some

(a) 0.905 atm time

(b) 6.88 atm (d) very high atmospheric pressure

(c) 9.05 atm
5. At a constant temperature a gas occu-
(d) data, insufficient pies a volume of 200 ml at a pressure of

2. Dibutylphthalate is often used as a mono- 0.720 bar. It is subjected to an external

meter fluid. It has a density of 1.047 g/ml. pressure of 0.900 bar. What is the result-
How many torrs are represented by I mm ing volume of the gas?
of this fluid? (a) 160 ml (b) 320 ml

(a) 0.077 torr (b) I torr (c) 80 ml (d) 400 ml

(c) 12.98 torr (d) 760 torr
6. A volume of 2.5 1 of a sample of a gas at
3. A liquid of density 1.70 g/ml is filled in 270 C and I bar pressure is compressed to
the barometer, in place of mercury. What a volume of 500 ml keeping the tempera-
should be the length of liquid column, if ture constant, the percentage increase in
another barometer filled with mercury, is pressure is
measuring 75 cm pressure? (a) 100% (b) 400%
(a) 75 cm (b) 600 cm (c) 500% (d) 80%
(c) 9.375 cm (d) 6000 cm
7. When we inflate cycle tubes, the volume (a) -273 0C (b) -2760C of tube as
well as the pressure of air (c) 276 K inside tube increases
13. When a definite mole of different gases
(a) It is an exceptional case of Boyle's Law. are heated from 200 C to 400C at
constant
(b) It happens because air is not ideal pressure, their volume gas.
(a) becomes double
(c) It happens because mass of air is not
(b) increases in the ratio of their
molecuconstant. lar masses
(d) It happens because external force is
(c)
i
ncreases by the same extent applied in
inflating the tubes.
(d)
d
ecreases by the same extent
8. The value of Boyle's Law constant (in S.I. 14. A sample of gas at 35 0 C and I atmosunit)
for 200 ml of gas at 1.2 atm is about pheric pressure occupies a volume of (a) 240 atm-
ml (b) 0.24 atm-l 3.75 1. At what temperature should the (c) 24.3 J (d) 0.24 J gas be
kept, if it is required to reduce the
9. In the outer space, the pressure recorded volume to 3.0 1 at the same pressure? is 5 x 10-
4 torr. How much outer space (a) -26.6 0C (b) OO C could be compressed into 1 dm 3 box
at a (c) 3.980 C (d) 280 C pressure of I atm?
15. A toy balloon can occupy 500 ml at 270 C.
(a) 1.52 x 1016 dm3 The maximum stretching capacity of

(b) 4.56 x 1016 dm3 the balloon is three times of the volume
(c) 2.28 x 106 dm3 at 270 C. The temperature above which

(d) 1.14 x 1016 dm3 the balloon will burst, if pressure of the
10. What is the increase in volume, when the balloon does not change temperature of 600
ml of air increases (a) 300 K (b) 900 K from 27 0C to 47oc under constant (c) 625 0C (d)
2250 C pressure?
16. One day, when the temperature and pres-
(a) 50 ml (b) 60 ml sure were 300 K and 760 mm, a mass of
(c) 80 ml (d) 40 ml gas had a volume of 1200 ml. On the next
 (a)
(c)

11. The temperature of a certain mass of a day, the volume had changed to 1218 ml gas
increased from 370C to 380C. The while the pressure was the same. What volume of the
gas was the temperature on the next day?

(a) will decrease by —1 of its volume at (a) 546 K (b) 304.5 K

370C 273 (c) 31.5 K (d) 300 K

(b) will increase by— 1 of its volume at 17. If the pressure of a certain amount of a
273 K 273 gas increases by 1% on heating by I O C at
1 constant volume, its initial temperature
(c) will increase by — of its volume at must be 273
310K
(d) will remain the same. (a) 100 K (b) looo c
(c) 250 K (d) 2500 C
12. At 40C, a gas occupies 200 ml and the 18. same
amount of gas at the same pressure occupies
300 ml at 1440 C. The absolute
A gas has a volume of V cm 3 at IOO C. If the pressure is doubled, at what temperature will the
volume still be Vcm3?
zero from this data is
2730 C (b) 3000C ozone at the same room temperature and
0 0
283 C (d) 293 C pressure. The ratio of total number of atoms of these gases present in
the differ0gas C to at 273 1 atm K keep-pres- ent flasks would be
19. A quantity of 10 g of a sure is cooled from 273 ing its volume constant, the final pressure
of the gas will be

(a) 273 atm (b) 0.5 atm 23. Reducing the pressure from 1.0 atm to
(c) 0.2 atm (d) 0.1 atm 0.5 atm would change the number of
molecules in one mole of ammonia to (a)
20. A pre-weighed vessel was filled with
75% of initial value
oxygen at NTP and weighed. It was then
(b) 50% of initial value
evacuated, filled with S02 at the same
(c) 25% of initial value
temperature and pressure, and again
weighed. The mass of oxygen will be (a) (d) None of these
the same as that of S02 24. A closed container contains N molecules
(b) half that of S02 at P atm and T K. If the absolute
(c) twice that of S02 temperature is doubled,
(d) one-fourth of S02 (a) number of molecules present in the
container will become 2N
21. According to Avogadro's hypothesis,
(b) number of molecules present in the
equal volumes of all gases under the
same conditions of temperature and container will become N/2
pressure will contain (c) gas pressure become 2P
(a) the same number of molecules (d) gas pressure become P/2
 (b) different number of molecules 25. Reducing the pressure from 1.0 to 0.5
(c) the same number of molecules only if atm would change the number of
their molecular masses are equal molecules in one mole of ammonia to (a)
(d) the same number of molecules if their 75% of initial value
densities are equal (b) 50% of initial value
(c) 25% of initial value
22. Four I-I flasks are separately filled with
(d) None of these
the gas hydrogen, helium, oxygen and

26. Under what conditions will a pure (a) decreasing the volume but keeping
sample of an ideal gas not only exhibit a the quantity and pressure fixed
pressure of 1 atm, also a concentration (b) decreasing the quantity but keeping
of I mole the pressure and volume fixed
(c) decreasing the pressure but keeping
(a) At STP the quantity and volume fixed
(b) when V- 22.4 1 (d) decreasing the pressure and volume
(c) when T z 12 K but keeping the quantity fixed
(d) Impossible under any condition 28. The approximate length of the side of a
27. The temperature of an ideal gas can be cube containing 850 million gas
raised by molecules at OO C and 1 atm would be
(a) 3.15 x 104 cm (b) 3 x 10 3 cm (a) 273 K and I atm
(c) 1 mm (d) 5.25 x 10-4 cm (b) 273 K and 2 atm
(c) 546 K and I atm
29. The pressure of interstellar space is about (d) 546 K and 2 atm
4.0 x 10 22 atm. If the temperature is 3 K,
how many molecules are present per litre? 35. A vessel contains 1 mole of 02 gas at a
tem-
(R = 0.08 1-atm/K-mol) perature T. The pressure of the gas is P.
An
(a) 2430 (b) 1420 identical vessel containing 1 mole of He
(c) 845 (d) 1002 gas at a temperature 2Thas a pressure of
30. The molar volume of C02 is maximum at
(a) 273 K and 1 atm
(b) 546 K and 1 atm 36. A 10 1 bulb contains an ideal gas of
molar
(c) 273 K and 2 atm mass 81 at 27 0C. Some gas is removed
(d) 546 K and 2 atm from the bulb until the pressure of gas
 (a)
(c)

decreased by 0.82 atm. The mass of gas

0
31. The volume occupied by 1.8 g H20 at 4 C removed is
and 760 mm pressure is
(a) 27 g (b) 81 g
(a) 1.8 1 (b) 1.8 ml (c) 40.5 g (d) 54 g
(c) 2.27 1 (d) 2.98 ml
37. A bulb with chlorine gas at ambient
pres-
32. If air is pumped slowly but continuously sure contains 3.55 g at t 0C. When the
bulb
into a metallic cylinder of strong wall, what is placed in a second thermostat at a
tem-
would happen to the air inside the cylinder? perature 30 0C higher and the stopcock
of
(a) temperature of air would increase the bulb temporarily opened (and closed
(b) pressure of air would increase again) to restore the initial pressure, the
(c) pressure of air would decrease bulb is now found to contain 3.2 g of
(d) temperature and pressure of air chlorine. What is the value of t0 C?
would increase (a) 2.81 0 C (b) 8.21 0 C

33. V vs T curves at different pressures PI (c) 8.120 C (d) 1.28 0 C

and P2 for an ideal gas are shown below. 38. If the absolute temperature of an ideal
Which one of the following is correct? gas having volume V cm3 is doubled
and
the pressure is reduced to half, the final volume of gas will be
(a) 0.25 v (b) 0.50V
(d) Relation between PI and P2 depends (c) 2V 2
on the gas.
39. A 0.5 dm3 flask contains gas A and 1
dm3

flask contains gas B at the

same temperature. If density
of A is twice that of B and the molar mass of A is half of B, then the ratio of
pressure exerted by gases is (a) PA/PB = 2 (b) PA/PB= 1
40. Density of a gas is found to be 5.46
g/dm3
34. At which of the following four condi- at 27oc at 2 bar pressure. Its density at
tions, the density of an ideal gas will be STP will be
(C) PA/PB = 4
maximum?
I g/dm3 (b) 2 g/dm3 (a) 2m/3 (b) m/2 3 g/dm3 (d) 4 g/dm3 (c) m/4 (d) m/6

41. A student forgot to add the reaction mix- 46. A perfectly expandable balloon filled ture to
the round-bottomed flask at 27 o c with helium gas at 27o c and a pressure but put it on the
flame. After a lapse of of 720 mm of Hg has a volume of 100 1. time, he realized his
mistake. Using a The balloon rises to an altitude where the pyrometer, he found the
temperature of pressure is 420 mm of Hg and the temthe flask as 477 0 C. What fraction of
air perature —530C. What is the change in the would have been expelled out? volume of
the balloon? (a) 5/3 (b) 3/5 (a) 16 1 (b) 25.7 1
(c) 2/5 (d) 3/2 (c) 48 1 (d) 15.7 1
42 Pressure of I g of an ideal gas A at 27 o c 47. There is 10 1 of a gas at STP. Which of is found to be 2
bar. When 2 g of another the following changes keep the volume ideal gas B is introduced in the
same constant?
flask at same temperature the pressure (a) 273 K and 2.0 bar pressure becomes
3 bar. What is the relationship (b) 546 K and 2.0 bar pressure between their
molecular masses? (c) 546 K and 0.5 bar pressure (a) 2MB= MA
(d) 273 K and 0.5 bar pressure
(C) MB =4MA (d) MB22MA
48. A certain mass of an ideal gas at 9
atm 4 A compound exists in the gaseous phase and 30 C is first heated to 131 o c at conboth
0

as monomer (A) and dimer (B). The stant volume and then the amount of the molecular mass
of A is 48. In an experi- gas is increased by 50% at constant volment, 96 g of the compound
was confined ume and temperature. The final pressure in a vessel of volume 33.6 1 and
heated to of the gas becomes
546 K. What is the pressure developed if (a) 9 atm (b) 4.5 atm the compound exists as dimer to
the extent (c) 18 atm (d) 13.5 atm of 50% by weight under these conditions?
49. A quantity of 10 g of an ideal gas is
(a) 2 atm (b) 4 atm
expanded at constant temperature until
(c) 3 atm (d) 0.5 atm
its pressure becomes half of the initial 44. A
2.24 1 cylinder of oxygen at OO C and pressure. The quantity of 1.25 g of the 1 atm is found to develop
a leakage. When rarefied gas occupies 50 ml at the same the leakage was plugged, the pressure final
pressure and temperature. The inidropped to 570 mm of Hg. The number tial volume of the gas was of
moles of gas that escaped will be (a) 200 ml (b) 400 ml (a) 0.025 (b) 0.050 (c) 800 ml (d) 25 ml
(c) 0.075 (d) 0.09
 (a)
(c)

One mole of N204(g) at 300 K is kept in

45. A container contains certain gas of a closed container under 1 atmospheric mass m at high
pressure. Some of the pressure. It is heated to 600 K when gas has been allowed to escape
from the 20% by mass of N204(g) decomposes to container. After some time, the pressure
N02(g). The resultant pressure is of the gas becomes half and its absolute (a) 1.2 atm (b) 2.4
atm temperature two-third. The amount of (c) 2.0 atm (d) 1.0 atm the gas escaped is

51. Which of the following mixture of gases 57. The mass of pure CH4 gas to be mixed
at room temperature follows Dalton's law with 70 g of pure CO so that the partial
of partial pressure? pressure of CO is equal to the partial
(a) NFL, HCI pressure of CH4, is
(b) FL, 02 (a) 40 g (b) 70 g
(c) NO, 02 (c) 16 g (d) 28 g
(d) All the above
58. A box of 1 1 capacity is divided into two
52. The partial pressures of N2, 02 and C02 equal compartments by a thin partition,
in a vessel are 38 cm of Hg, 190 torr and which is filled with 2 g hydrogen and 16 g
0.5 atm, respectively. The total pressure methane, respectively. The pressure in
of the mixture at the same temperature is each compartment is recorded as P atm.
(a) 0.96 atm The total pressure when the partition is
(b) 1.02 atm removed will be
(c) 1.64 atm
(d) 1.25 atm
53. Assume that air is 21% 02 and 79% N2 59. A closed vessel contains equal number
by volume. If the barometric pressure is of nitrogen and oxygen molecules at a
740 mm, the partial pressure of 02 is clos- pressure of P mm. If nitrogen is removed
est to which one of the following from the system, then the pressure will be
(a) 155 mm (b) 310 mm
(c) 580 mm (d) 740 mm
54. Equal masses of ethane and hydrogen are 60. A vessel is filled with a mixture of oxygen
mixed in an empty container at 250C. The and nitrogen. At what ratio of par-
fraction of the total pressure exerted by tial pressures will the mass of gases be hydrogen is
identical?
(a) P(02) = 0.785 P(N2)
(c) 1:16 (d) 15:16 (b) P(02) = 8.75 P(N2)
(c) P(02) = 11.4 P(N2)
55. A mixture of hydrogen and oxygen at one
(d) P(02) = 0.875 P(N2)
bar pressure contains 20%, by weight, of
hydrogen. The partial pressure of hydro- 61. The volumes of the two vessels are in
gen will be the ratio of 2:1. One contains nitrogen
(a) 8 bar (b) 0.8 bar and the other oxygen at 800 mm and
(c) 4 bar (d) 6 bar 680 mm pressure, respectively. Determine
the resulting pressure when they are con-
56. Quantities of 16 g of oxygen and 14 g nected together.
of nitrogen are contained in a closed
(a) 760 mm (b) 670 mm
bottle. The pressure inside the bottle is
(c) 1140 mm (d) 1480 mm
4 atm. Now, 8 g 02 gas is removed from
the bottle. What will be the new pressure 62. What will be the pressure of the gas mix-
inside the bottle? ture when 0.5 1 of H2 at 0.8 bar and 2.0 1
(a) 2 atm (b) 4 atm of oxygen at 0.7 bar are introduced in a
(c) 6 atm (d) 3 atm 1 1 vessel at 27 0 C?
3 bar (b) 1.8 bar (a) equal to the atmospheric pressure
1 bar (d) 18 bar (b) equal to the vapour pressure of oxygen at that temperature
 (a)
(c)

63. A quantity of 4 g H2 reacts with 9 x 10 23 C12 (c) equal to atmospheric pressure plus
molecules and forms HCI gas. If the total aqueous tension at that temperature pressure of
the system after reaction is (d) equal to atmospheric pressure minus
700 mm, what is the partial pressure of aqueous tension at that temperature
HCI? Assume complete reaction.
(a) 200 mm (b) 350 mm 68. At 20 0 C, the vapour pressure of water (c) 300 mm (d) 600
mm is recorded as 22.57 mbar. What will be vapour pressure of water in the apparatus 64. A
vessel has N2 gas saturated with water shown after the piston is lowered, thereby vapours at a
total pressure of I atm. The decreasing the volume of the gas above vapour pressure of water is
0.3 atm. The liquid to half of the original volume contents of this vessel are completely
(a) 45.14 mbar
transferred to another vessel having one-
(b) 22.57 mbar
third of the capacity of original volume,
(c) 11.28 mbar at
the same temperature. The total
(d) between
11.28 and 22.57 mbar pressure of this system in the
new vessel is (a) 3.0 atm (b) I atm
(c) 3.33 atm (d) 2.4 atm
65. There is some liquid in a closed bottle.
The amount
of liquid is continuouslyWater vapour
decreasing. The vapour in the remaining part
Liquid vapour
(b) must be unsaturated
(c) must be super saturated
69. If the concentration of water vapour in
(d) there will be no vapour the air is 1% and the total atmospheric
66. A sample of air contains only N2, 02 and pressure equals I atm, then the partial
1-120. It is saturated with water vapour pressure of water vapour is

and pressure is 640 torr. The vapour pres- (a) 0.1 atm (b) I mm Hg
sure of water is 40 torr and the molar ratio (c) 7.6 mm Hg (d) 100 atm
of N2:02 is 3:1. The partial pressure
of N2 in the sample is 70. A volume of 190.0 ml of N2 was collected
in a jar over water at some
(a) 540 torr temperature,
water level inside and outside the jar
(b) 900 torr
 standing at the same height. If barom-
(c) 1080 torr
(d) 450 torr eter reads 740 mm Hg and aqueous
tension at the temperature of the
experiment
67. Oxygen gas is collected by downward is 20 mm Hg, the volume of the gas at
displacement of water in a jar. The level I atm pressure and at the same
tempera-
of water inside the jar is adjusted to the ture would be

height of water outside the jar. When the (a) 185.0 ml (b) 180.0 ml

adjustment is made, the pressure exerted (c) 195.0 ml (d) 200 ml

(a) must be saturated

by the oxygen is

71. If helium and methane are allowed to (a) be enlarged

diffuse out of the container under the (b) shrink
similar conditions of temperature and (c) remain unchanged in size
pressure, then the ratio of rate of diffu- (d) collapse completely
sion of helium to methane is A certain gas diffuses from two
77. different
(a) 2.0 (b) 1.0 vessels A and B. The vessel A has a
circu-
(c) 0.5 (d) 4.0 lar orifice while vessel B has square orifice

72. An unknown gas 'X' has rate of diffusion of length equal to the radius of the
orifice
measured to be 0.88 times that of PH3 at of vessel A. The ratio of the rates of
dif-
the same conditions of temperature and fusion of the gas from vessel A to
vessel
pressure. The gas may be B, assuming same temperature and
pres-
(b) CO sure is
(c) N02 (d) N20 (b) l/Tt

73. A quantity of 2 g of hydrogen diffuses

 (a)
(c)

from a container is 10 min. How many 78. A volume of 180 ml of hydrocarbon

takes
grams of oxygen would diffuse through 15 min to diffuse. Under the same con-
the same container in the same time ditions 120 ml of sulphur dioxide takes
under similar conditions? 20 min. The molecular weight of
hydrocarbon is
(a) 16 (b) 32
(c) 48 (d) 64
74. A gas with formula diffuses
through the porous plug at a rate one- 79. In a glass tube of 1 m length and
uniform
sixth of the rate of diffusion of hydrogen cross section, NH3(g) from one end and
gas under similar conditions. The for- BF3(g) from the other end are sent at a
mula of gas is time. The distance from the ammonia
end
where the addition compound, BF3 •
(a) C2H6 NH3
10 22
will first form is (B = I l; F = 19)
(d) CO-114 (a) 66.67 cm (b) 33.33 cm
75. A class consists of 7 rows. The teacher (c) 50.00 cm (d) 60.00 cm

releases laughing gas, N20 from the front For 10 min each, at 27 0C, from two
row and a mischievous student releases 80. iden-
a tear gas of molecular weight 176 from tical holes nitrogen and an unknown
rear most. The student of which row gas are leaked into a common vessel of
from the first will weep and smile simul- 3 1 capacity. The resulting pressure is
4.18 bar and the mixture contains 0.4
taneously
mole of nitrogen. The molar mass of
(a) fifth (b) first the
(c) second (d) third unknown gas is
(a) 112 g mol-I
76. A balloon is filled with N20 is pricked (b) 242 g mol-I

with a sharp point and quickly plunged (c) 224 g mol-I

into a tank of C02 under the same pressure (d) 422 g mol-I
and temperature. The balloon will
 Answer Keys - Exercise I
Gaseous Parameters and Gas Laws
3. (c) 4. (c) 5. (a) 6. (b) 7. (c)
9. (a) 10. (d)
1 1. (b) 12. (b) 13. (c) 14. (a) 15. (c) 16. (b) 17. (a)
18. (d) 19. (b) 20. (b)
21. (a) 22. (c) 23. (d) 24. (c) 25. (d)

Ideal Gas Equation

26. (c) 27. (b) 28. (a) 29. (d) 30. (b) 31. (b) 32. (b)
33. (a) 34. (b) 35. (c)
36. (a) 37. (d) 38. (d) 39. (c) 40. (c) 41. (b) 42. (c)
43. (a) 44. (a) 45. (c)
46. (b) 47. (b) 48. (c) 49. (a) 50. (b)
Dalton's Law
51. (b) 52. (d) 53. (a) 54. (d) 55. (b) 56. (d) 57. (a)
58. (a) 59. (c) 60. (d)
61. (a) 62. (b) 63. (d) 64. (d) 65. (b) 66. (d) 67. (d)
68. (b) 69. (c) 70. (b)

Graham's Law
71. (a) 72. (d) 73. (d) 74. (c) 75. (d) 76. (c) 77.
(a) 78. (a) 79. (a) 80. (c)