Thermodynamics Calorimetry-Enthalpy Chapter 5.2+5.3 Flashcards
Calorimeter (4)
What is does+Endo+Exo reactions+How is does it
- A device used to measure the amount of heat involved in a chemical or physical process.
- An exothermic reaction occurs in solution in a calorimeter, the heat produced by the reaction is absorbed by the solution, which increases its temperature.
- An endothermic reaction occurs, the heat required is absorbed from the thermal energy of the solution, which decreases its temperature .
- The temperature change, along with the specific heat and mass of the solution, can then be used to calculate the amount of heat involved in either case.
System
the substance or substances undergoing the chemical or physical change
Surroundings
All other matter, including components of the measurement apparatus, that serve to either provide heat to the system or absorb heat from the system
In a calormetric determination, there are 2 situations:
*use words such as heat, q, thermal energy, run type…
- An exothermic process occurs and heat, q, is negative, indicating that thermal energy is transferred from the system to its surroundings
- An endothermic process occurs and heat, q, is positive, indicating that thermal energy is transferred from the surroundings to the system
In a calorimeter heat transfer occur
What is net heat change?
between the two substances, with no heat gained or lost by either its external environment. Under these ideal circumstances, the net heat change is zero
Because energy is neither created nor destroyed during a chemical reaction, the heat produced or consumed in the reaction (the “system”), q reaction, plus the heat absorbed or lost by the solution (the “surroundings”), q solution, must add up to
0
How do do speific heat capacity questions with acid/solutions:
we can proceed as if it were water in terms of its specific heat and mass values.
Sub in values for water specific heat, mass (add the hcl+naoh concentration) and change in temp of the overall rxn as water’s since its so much as a solvent
Bomb Calorimeter calibration (3)
How calibration done? What does it determine?+when is it performed?
- Bomb calorimeters require calibration to which includes the bomb, water, stirrer, thermometer, and entire container.
- The calibration is accomplished using a reaction with a known q, such as a measured quantity of benzoic acid ignited by a spark from a nickel fuse wire that is weighed before and after the reaction. The temperature change produced by the known reaction is used to determine the heat capacity of the calorimeter.
- The calibration is generally performed each time before the calorimeter is used to gather research data.
What does Bomb calorimeter operate on?
Constant volume: the system is sealed or isolated from its surroundings, which accounts for why its volume is fixed
Bomb calorimeters require calibration to determine the
heat capacity of the calorimeter
Different substances have different heat capacities, therefore
different objects pf the same mass can exhibit different temperature changes after absorbing the same amount of heat
Internal energy
The total of all possible kinds of energy present in a substance
the sum of all the microscopic kinetic and potential energies of the particles in the system if the system would be at rest and not in a macroscopic energy potential.
Energy is transferred into a system when (2)+ex
it absorbs heat (q) from the surroundings or when the surroundings do work (w) on the system
For example, energy is transferred into room-temperature metal wire if it is immersed in hot water (the wire absorbs heat from the water), or if you rapidly bend the wire back and forth (the wire becomes warmer because of the work done on it).
Conversely, energy is transferred out of a system when (2)
Use wire example
heat is lost from the system, or when the system does work on the surroundings.
First law of thermodynamics
Formula+ what it shows and what does the positive/neg mean?
This is one version of the first law of thermodynamics, and it shows that the internal energy of a system changes through heat flow into or out of the system (positive q is heat flow in; negative q is heat flow out) or work done on or by the system.
The work, w, is positive if it is done on the system and negative if it is done by the system.
As a system undergoes a change….
internal energy+what happen to it
its internal energy can change, and energy can be transferred from the system to the surroundings, or from the surroundings to the system.
The internal energy, U, of a system can be changed by (2)
Heat flow and work