properties and behaviours of gases Flashcards
Gases and volume
Unlike solids and liquids which have definite volume, gases expand to fill any space available to them. Their volume is defined by the volume of the container they are in. Gases also take up more volumes in the same substances of liquid or solid form (ex 100 ml of water fills 200 L of space in gas form)
Gas properties
- shape and volume depend on container
- compressible and less organized
- . volume decreases when pressure is exerted but with solids and liquids, the particles cannot move closer together
- gases expand when heated but pressure remains constant (solids and liquids too but to much smaller degree).
- low viscosity and less dense.
- they are also always miscible
Liquid properties
Variable shape but constant volume, incompressible but particles are able to slide over each other
Solid properties
Constant shape and volume, incompressible and particles are fully organized
Factors that determine state
Forces between particles: ions, atoms or molecules
And kinetic energy: which has the tendency to pull them apart
No forces?
All substances would be gases so forces are necessary for solids and liquids
Stronger forces
Greater the amount of energy to pull them apart. more strong forces= more solid compound (where ionic compounds are most definitely solid. weaker forces (like polar molecules) could be in any state of matter.
How are polar molecules attracted?
Partial charges or dipoles which allow them to create dipole-dipole forces of attraction. Hydrogen bonded to a F,O or N make a hydrogen bond which is a very strong type of polar attraction.
Non polar molecule attraction
Temporary dipoles which creates London forces. very weak. large molecules like C30H62 are solids which mid size C5H12 would be liquid. small ones like CO2 would be gases
Kinetic energy of particles
Remember vibrational, rotational, translational?
Temperature and kinetic energy
If there was 0 kin energy, everything would be a solid (not possible). by adding kin energy (heat), you increate types of movement in substance. if enough is added, the particles will overcome attractive forces and become gases.
“the potential energy of the substance is increased.”
The energy given to overcome the attractive forces between the particles is stored in particles.
Kinetic molecular theory
- particles area always moving and collisions are completely elastic. individual gas particles have a negligible volume and that attractive forces between particles of gas are also negligible.
- inform the news of boyle and charles’s from this
Ideal gases
- point mass
- no attractive or repulsive force
- move in perfectly straight lines
- collisions are completely elastic
- has high translational kinetic energy
- average kinetic energy is directly related to temperature
as pressure increases and/or temperature decreases, gases deviate further from ideal behaviour
Closed system
the total amount of matter remains constant and matter can neither enter nor leave.
Open system
Everything moves freely
Isolated system
Neither matter or energy can move in or out
pressure
Force exerted per unit of surface area (N/m2)
Atmospheric pressure
- all gases are pulsed by gravity to earth and exert pressure on all objects on earth. atmospheric pressure is the force of a column of air on Earth’s surface divided by the area at the base of the column. it gets lower and the density of air is decreased as you move higher in altitude since as you move up, there are less air particles above you, pushing down
Measuring pressure
- absolute pressure, actual pressure exerted by a gas using a barometer. pressure on the liquid will change depending on the weather and the altitude
- relative pressure (pressure exerted by a gas relative to the atmospheric pressure which is measured using a manometer.
Stormy weather and headaches
- people have headaches on rainy days since there is less pressure due to storm and they are used to pushing against a certain atmospheric pressure. since the pressure is lower, the head swells to try to push back causing pain
- pressure is lower in storm since air gets sucked up into clouds
- higher altitude has lower pressure
Standard ambient temperature and pressure
Standard conditions that help compare gases
Boyle’s law
The volume of a given mas of a gas at constant temperature is inversely proportional to its pressure.
- Boyle’s Law can be rearranged to compare the change in initial and final volume and pressure of a gas sample
p1v1=p2v2
Using Kinetic Molecular Theory to Explain Boyle’s Law
- The pressure on the walls of a container filled with gas is caused by collisions between the gas molecules and the container’s walls
- Each collision exerts a force on the wall.
- When the volume of the container is increased, the pressure is decreased because there is more space for the gas particles to move around. However, when the volume of the container is decreased, there is less space for particles to move around, which leads to more collisions and thus, more pressure