Physical Chemistry: Thermodynamics, Structure, and Change

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 1429290196
ISBN 13: 978-1-42929-019-7

Chapter 1 - Topic 1A - The perfect gas - Problems - Page 55: 1A.1

Answer

Absolute zero $=-233.33 \mathrm{N}$

Work Step by Step

since the Neptunians have a celsius type scale, the absolute temperature can be written as, $$ \mathrm{T}_{\mathrm{abs}}=\mathrm{T}_{\mathrm{N}}+\mathrm{K} \quad\quad\quad\quad(1) $$ where, $\mathrm{T}_{\mathrm{abs}}$ is the absolute temperature. $\mathrm{T}_{\mathrm{N}}$ is the temperature in the Neptunian scale $\mathrm{K}$ is the constant that needs to be added to convert the temperature from absolute scale to Neptunian scale Also given the perfect gas law is followed in the Neptunian environment i.e. $p \cdot V=n \cdot R \cdot T \quad\quad\quad\quad\quad(2)$ From the question, we have two scenarios where the values for $\mathrm{PV}$ and $\mathrm{T}$ have been provided. Since the gas is the same and no new mass is added we can equate the number of moles of the gas in both the scenarios. i.e., $\begin{aligned} \frac{p_{1} \cdot V_{1}}{T_{1}} &=\frac{p_{2} \cdot V_{2}}{T_{2}} \\ \frac{28}{K+0} &=\frac{40}{K+100} \\ 28 \times(K+100) &=40 \times(K+0) \\ K &=233.33 \end{aligned}$ Hence the value at absolute zero $$ \begin{aligned} \mathrm{T}_{\mathrm{abs}} &=\mathrm{T}_{\mathrm{N}}+\mathrm{K} \\ 0 &=\mathrm{T}_{\mathrm{N}}+233.33 \\ \mathrm{T}_{\mathrm{N}} &=-233.33 \mathrm{N} \end{aligned} $$
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