Boyles' Law Worksheet (03-08-11)

1) 1.00 L of a gas at standard temperature and pressure is compressed to 473 mL. What is the new pressure of the gas?

1.00 L = 0.473 L -- 0^degreesC = 1 atm

P,,1,,V,,1,, = P,,2,,V,,2,,

1.00 L * 1 atm = 0.473 * P,,2,,

1.00 L * 1 atm

____________ = P,,2,, = 2.11 atm

.473 L

2) In a thermonuclear device, the pressure of 0.050 liters of gas within the bomb casing reaches 4.0 x 10^6 atm. When the bomb casing is destroyed by the explosion, the gas is released into the atmosphere where it reaches a pressure of 1.00 atm. What is the volume of the gas after the explosion?

3) Synthetic diamonds can be manufactured at pressures of 6.00 * 10^4 atm. If we took 2.00 liters of gas at 1.00 atm and compressed it to a pressure of 6.00 x 10^4 atm, what would the volume of that gas be?

4) The highest pressure ever produced in a laboratory setting was about 2.0 * 10^6 atm. If we have 1.0 * 10^-5 liter sample of a gas at that pressure, then release the pressure until it is equal to 0.275 atm, what would the new volume of that gas be?