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Chapter Five Self Quiz



Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 

 1. 

A battery-operated power tool, such as a cordless drill, converts
a.
electrostatic energy to chemical potential energy.
b.
mechanical energy to thermal energy.
c.
thermal energy to mechanical energy.
d.
thermal energy to chemical potential energy.
e.
chemical potential energy to mechanical energy.
 

 2. 

Which one of the following statements is INCORRECT?
a.
Energy is neither created nor destroyed in chemical reactions.
b.
Kinetic energy is the energy associated with motion.
c.
Exothermic processes transfer heat from the surrounding into the system.
d.
Increasing the thermal energy of a gas increases the motion of its atoms.
e.
Energy is the capacity to do work.
 

 3. 

How many nutritional calories are equivalent to 875 kJ?
a.
0.875 Cal
b.
209 Cal
c.
3.66 × 103 Cal
d.
2.09 × 105 Cal
e.
3.66 × 106 Cal
 

 4. 

Specific heat capacity is
a.
the quantity of heat needed to change 1.00 g of a substance by 1.00 K.
b.
the mass of a substance that 1.00 J of energy will heat by 1.00 K.
c.
the mass of a substance that 1.00 cal of energy will heat by 1.00 K.
d.
the temperature change undergone when 1.00 g of a substance absorbs 4.184 J.
e.
the quantity of heat required to melt 4.184 g of a substance.
 

 5. 

Heat capacity is defined as
a.
the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of substance by 1 K.
b.
the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of a substance by 1 K.
c.
the amount of heat required to vaporize a solid or liquid.
d.
the amount of heat required to melt a solid.
e.
4.18 cal/g·K.
 

 6. 

Which one of the following statements is INCORRECT?
a.
In an exothermic process heat is transferred from the system to the surroundings.
b.
The greater the heat capacity of an object, the more thermal energy it can store.
c.
The SI unit of specific heat capacity is joules per gram per Kelvin.
d.
The specific heat capacity has a positive value for liquids and a negative value for gases.
e.
When heat is transferred from the system to the surroundings, q is negative.
 

 7. 

If 136 J is required to change the temperature of 8.75 g of mercury by 35.0 K, what is the specific heat capacity of mercury?
a.
0.0294 J/g·K
b.
0.311 J/g·K
c.
0.417 J/g·K
d.
0.444 J/g·K
e.
2.25 J/g·K
 

 8. 

If 50.0 g H2O at 13.6 °C is combined with 85.0 g H2O at 93.7 °C, what is the final temperature of the mixture? The specific heat capacity of water is 4.184 J/g·K.
a.
26.1 °C
b.
40.0 °C
c.
56.1 °C
d.
64.0 °C
e.
80.1 °C
 

 9. 

The heat of vaporization of benzene, C6H6, is 30.8 kJ/mol at its boiling point of 80.1 °C. How much heat is required to vaporize 128 g benzene at its boiling point?
a.
4.04 kJ
b.
18.8 kJ
c.
19.3 kJ
d.
50.5 kJ
e.
4.04 × 103 kJ
 

 10. 

If 1.86 g MgO is combined with 100.0 mL of 1.00 M HCl (density 1.00 g/mL) in a coffee cup calorimeter, the temperature of the resulting solution increases from 21.3 °C to 35.7 °C. Calculate the enthalpy change for the reaction per mole of MgO. Assume that the specific heat capacity of the solution is 4.18 J/g·K.
a.
-6.13 kJ
b.
-28.3 kJ
c.
-130. kJ
d.
-329 kJ
e.
-613 kJ
 



 
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