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Section 13.1

1.      What does kinetic refer to?

2.      What is kinetic energy

3.      What is the kinetic theory?

4.      Describe how we think of the particles of a gas.

5.      What is between the particles of a gas?

6.      Describe the motion of the particles of a gas.

7.      How fast are the particles of a gas moving?

8.      Why don’t they travel very far?

9.      What makes a collision elastic?

10.  How do particles cause pressure?

11.  What is a vacuum?

12.  Why does air pressure change as you go up a mountain?

13.  How is mercury used to measure pressure?

14.  What are the three units for pressure?

15.  Do Practice Problem 1.

16.  What is true of the kinetic energy of particles at the same temperature?

17.  What is happens to the average kinetic energy as the temperature is raised?

18.  When would the particles have no kinetic energy?

19.  How does the Kelvin temperature tell you about average kinetic energy?

 


Section 13.2

1.      Why are both solids and liquids fluids?

2.      What is the difference between the particles in a liquid and a gas?

3.      What do the intermolecular forces do to the particles in a liquid?

4.      What is vaporization?

5.      What conditions make it evaporation?

6.      Which molecules can escape?

7.      Why does heating increase the rate of evaporation?

8.      Why does sweating cool us?

9.      How is vaporization in a closed container different?

10.  What is vapor pressure?

11.  What causes dynamic equilibrium?

12.  What happens to the vapor pressure at a LOWER temperature and why?

13.  Why do different compounds have different vapor pressures?

14.  How does a manometer work?

15.  When does a liquid boil?

16.  What is the boiling point?

17.  What can you do to lower the boiling point?

18.  Why is boiling a cooling process?

19.  Why doesn’t supplying more heat change the boiling point?

20.  What is the normal boiling point?

                               

 

 


Section 13.3

1.      How are the particles arranged in a solid?

2.      Describe what happens to molecules of a solid when it melts.

3.      What is true of the melting and freezing point?

4.      What determines the shape of a crystal?

5.      What determines the melting point of a solid?

6.      What is an allotrope?

7.      What is an amorphous solid?

8.      How is melting them different?

9.      How is breaking amorphous solids different from crystals?

 


Section13.4

1.      What is sublimation?

2.      What substances can sublime?

3.      What is a phase diagram?

4.      What are the axes on a phase diagram?

5.      What is the line on a phase diagram?

6.      What is the triple point?