Chapter 9 Flashcards
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What is the principal source of energy on earth?
The sun introduces energy onto the earth and drives wind and water cycles.
Thermochemistry
thermochemistry: the energy changes that occur during chemical & physical changes
Energy
the capacity to do work or transfer heat
Work (w):
the action of a force applied across a distance
Heat (q)
transfer of energy from a hotter or colder
object
Heat flows from a hotter object in contact with a colder object until they are the same temp
Kinetic energy:
energy of objects in motion
Potential energy
energy of an object by virtue
of its position or composition
Thermal energy
Kinetic energy (or thermal energy) is the energy associated with the random motion of atoms and molecules.
Electromagnetic energy
energy carried through space by electromagnetic waves
Law of Conservation of
Energy
energy can be neither
created nor destroyed; it is
converted from one form to
another
calorie (cal)
1 cal = 4.184 J (exactly)
State function
values that depend on the state of the substance, and not on how that state was reached. It is path independent
Hess’s law
If a process can be written as the sum of several stepwise processes, the enthalpy change of the total process equals the sum of the enthalpy changes of the various steps
Is temperature potential or thermal energy?
- Temperature: a quantitative measure of thermal energy
- Temperature of a gas is directly proportion to the average kinetic energy (Kinetic Molecular Theory)
exothermic process
Chemical/physical change that releases heat
Heat is negative
Think about the system and define it
endothermic process
Chemical/physical change that absorbs heat
Heat is positive
Molar heat capacity
Heat capacity per mol
-used when talking about pure substance’s homogenous
heat capactiy
the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature by 1K/1 °C
then be used for objects and any type of mixture
Specific heat capacity
heat capacity per gram
can be used for heterogenous mixtures or homogenous mixtures
Calorimetry and types
the technique for measuring the amount of heat involved in a chemical or physical process
Solution calorimeter: measures heat transfer involving rxns in solution or objects or physical changes immersed in water. It under constant pressure
A bomb calorimeter (used for combustion reactions) runs at constant volume
Heat transfer
0=q(system)=q(surroundings)
or
system=-surroundings
Heat is transferred between systems and surroundings but never actually lost
Tempeture
Temperature is a quantitative measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in an object
Internal energy (U)
The total amount of kinetic and potential energy a system possesses
First Law of thermodynamics
Energy can be neither created nor destroyed; it is converted from one form to another (law of conservation of energy)
- The total energy of the universe is constant
- Change in internal energy (U) is the sum of the energy changes due to transfer of heat and work