THERMOCHEMISTRY - First Law: energy, heat and work

19 important questions on THERMOCHEMISTRY - First Law: energy, heat and work

What is a surrounding?

It is everything else other than the system

What is an open system?

It is the exchange of heat/work and matter between the system and surroundings

What is an isolated system?

There is no exchange of heat/work or matter between the system and surroundings
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What is a adiabatic system?

It is the exchange of work between the system and surroundings but with no transfer of heat or matter

What are states of functions?

  • Are functions or properties that define the present conditions of a system
    • does not depend on how it got to where it is
    • Imagine a mountain, it does not matter how you got up that mountain, just that you are on top.

What are some examples of states of functions?

  1. Pressure
  2. Volume
  3. Temperature
  4. Moles
  5. Energy

What is internal energy?

  • It is the energy in a system arising from the relative positions and interactions of each parts
    • translations (motion)
    • energy stored in bonds ( rotational, vibrational, electronic)
    • energy stored in intermolecular forces

What is an extensive property?

  • Change of something as the amount of matter of it changes

What are some examples of extensive properties?

  1. Volume
  2. Length
  3. Weight
  4. Size
  5. Entropy

What are the sign conventions?

These are the sign convenstions

Is temperature intensive or extensive?

It is intensive because it does NOT depend on the amount of substance

What are some examples of intensive properties?

  1. Temperature
  2. Density
  3. Melting Point
  4. Boiling Point
  5. Concentration

What does the quantity of heat depend on?

  1. The temperature change of substance
  2. The amount of a substance (usually mass)
  3. The nature of a substance
    • H2O, Al, Ni..

What is a molar heat capacity?

  • It is "C"
  • units of J/mol C or J/mol K

T/F Is heat capacity intensive, while molar heat capacity and specific heat capacity is extensive?

  • False
  • heat capacity is extensive
  • specific heat capacity and molar heat capacity is intensive

What is the use of a calorimetry?

  • To measure the heat released/absorbed during a reaction
  • q = mcΔT

What are the 2 most common type of work encountered in chemical processes?

  1. Work done by a gas (expansion, w < 0)
  2. Work done to a gas (compression, w > 0)

If P (external) > P (internal) what will happen?

  • The gas will be compressed
  • the surroundings will perform work on the system (+w)
  • Vf < Vi

Why is it negative in the equation w = -PΔV

It is because a ΔV is positive (gas expansion, Vf>Vi)

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