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LEP 3.2.02 Heat Capacity of Gases R LEP Heat capacity of gases 3.2.02 Related topics Scissors, straight, l 140 mm 64625.00 1 Equation of state for ideal gases, 1st law of thermodynamics, Push-button switch 06039.00 1 universal gas constant, degree of freedom, mole volumes, iso- Connection box 06030.23 1 bars, isotherms, isochors and adiabatic changes of state. PEK carbon resistor 1 W 5 % 1 kOhm 39104.19 1 PEK electrol.capacitor 2 mmF/ 250 V 39105.29 1 Connecting cord, 500 mm, yellow 07361.02 3 Principle and task Connecting cord, 500 mm, red 07361.01 1 Heat is added to a gas in a glass vessel by an electric heater Connecting cord, 750 mm, red 07362.01 1 which is switched on briefly. The temperature increase results Connecting cord, 500 mm, blue 07361.04 4 in a pressure increase, which is measured with a manometer. Tripod base -PASS- 02002.55 1 Under isobaric conditions a temperature increase results in a Retort stand, h 750 mm 37694.00 2 volume dilatation, which can be read from a gas syringe. The Universal clamp 37715.00 2 molar heat capacities CV and Cp are calculated from the pres- Right angle clamp 37697.00 2 sure or volume change. Problems Equipment Determine the molar heat capacities of air at constant volume Precision manometer 03091.00 1 CV and at constant pressure Cp. Barometer/Manometer, hand-held 07136.00 1 Digital counter, 4 decades 13600.93 1 Digital multimeter 07134.00 2 Set-up and procedure Aspirator bottle, clear gl. 1000 ml 34175.00 1 Perform the experimental set-up according to Figs. 1 and 2. Gas syringe, 100 ml 02614.00 2 Insert the two nickel electrodes into two holes in the three- Stopcock, 1-way, straight, glass 36705.00 1 hole rubber stopper and fix the terminal screws to the lower Stopcock, 3-way, t-sh., capil., glass 36732.00 1 ends of the electrodes. Screw two pieces of chrome nickel Rubber stopper, d 22/17 mm, 3 holes 39255.14 1 wire, which are each about 15 cm long, into the clamps Rubber stopper, d 32/26 mm, 1 hole 39258.01 1 between these two electrodes so that they are electrically Rubber tubing, d 7 mm 39282.00 2 connected in parallel. The wires must not touch each other. Nickel electrode, d 3 mm, w. socket 45231.00 2 Insert the one-way stopcock into the third hole of the stopper Nickel electrode 76340 mm 45218.00 1 and insert the thus-prepared stopper in the lower opening of Chrome-nickel wire, d 0.1 mm, 100 m 06109.00 1 the bottle. Fig. 1: Experimental set-up (CV). PHYWE series of publications • Laboratory Experiments • Physics • PHYWE SYSTEME GMBH • 37070 Göttingen, Germany 23202 1 R LEP Heat capacity of gases 3.2.02 The 5 V output of the electrical 4-decade digital counter Fig. 3: Connecting the counter-timer. serves as the power source. The electrical circuit is illustrated in Fig. 3. To determine CV, connect the precision manometer to the bot- tle with a piece of tubing. To do this, insert the second stop- per, which has been equipped with the three-way stopcock, into the upper opening of the bottle (Fig. 1). The manometer must be positioned exactly horizontally. Read the pressure increase immediately after cessation of the heating process. The manometer must be filled with the oil which is supplied with the device. The scale is now calibrated in hPa. The riser tube of the manometer must be well wetted before each measurement. Start the measuring procedure by activating the push-button switch. The measuring period should be as short as possible (less than one second). Determine the current which flows For this reason it may be necessary to use only one heating during the measurement and the voltage separately at the end wire. of the measuring series. To achieve this, connect one of the In order to be able to determine Cp replace the manometer digital multimeters in series as an ammeter and the other in with two gas syringes, which are connected to the bottle via parallel as a voltmeter. the three-way stopcock (compare Fig. 2). One of the gas Perform at least 10 measurements. After each measurement, syringes is mounted horizontally and the other is positioned perform a pressure equalisation with the ambient atmospher- vertically with its plunger oriented downwards. While making ic pressure by opening the three-way cock. The electrical cur- measurements, the three-way cock must be positioned in rent which flows during the measurements must not be too such a manner that it only connects the vertical syringe with strong, i.e. it must be sufficiently weak to limit the pressure the bottle. To increase the plunger's mass, a nickel sheet increase due to the heating of the gas to a maximum of 1 hPa. metal electrode is attached to it with two-sided tape. Start the Fig. 2: Experimental set-up (Cp) 2 23202 PHYWE series of publications • Laboratory Experiments • Physics • PHYWE SYSTEME GMBH • 37070 Göttingen, Germany R LEP Heat capacity of gases 3.2.02 plunger rotating manually before the measurement so that it internal energy can be calculated with the aid of the kinetic rotates throughout measurement. In this manner the static gas theory from the number of degrees of freedom f: friction between the plunger and the body of the syringe is 1 minimised and the measured values are sufficiently exact. If U = f k N T n (7) i 2 B A the plunger stops prematurely, the volume increase (DV) read on the vertically mounted syringe is too low. Determine the air where pressure, which is required for the calculations, with the aid of -23 digital barometers. For the calculations use a value which lies kB = 1.38 · 10 J/K (Boltzmann Constant) 23 -1 14 hPa lower as the atmospheric pressure (compare Theory NA = 6.02 · 10 mol (Avogadro's number) and evaluation) for the pressure in the gas container. In this way the pressure depression due to the mass of the syringe's Through substitution of plunger is taken into consideration. R = k N (8) For the determination of Cp, also perform at least 10 measure- B A ments. After each measurement remove air from the system until the vertical syringe again exhibits the initial volume deter- it follows that mined in the first measurement. To do this, turn the three-way f C = R (9) cock in such a manner that both syringes and the bottle are V 2 connected with each other. and taking equation (6) into consideration: f 1 2 C = R (10) p ( 2 ) Theory and evaluation The first law of thermodynamics can be illustrated particularly The number of degrees of freedom of a molecule is a function well with an ideal gas. This law describes the relationship of its structure. All particles have 3 degrees of translational D freedom. Diatomic molecules have an additional two degrees between the change in internal intrinsic energy Ui the heat exchanged with the surroundings DQ and the constant-pres- of rotational freedom around the principal axes of inertia. sure change pdV. Triatomic molecules have three degrees of rotational freedom. Air consists primarily of oxygen (approximately 20%) and nitrogen (circa 80%). As a first approximation, the following dQ = dUi + pdV (1) can be assumed to be true for air: The molar heat capacity C of a substance results from the amount of absorbed heat and the temperature change per f =5 mole: CV= 2.5 R -1 -1 1 dQ CV = 20.8 J · K · mol C = · (2) n dT and Cp = 3.5 R -1 -1 n = number of moles Cp = 29.1 J · K · mol . One differentiates between the molar heat capacity at con- stant volume CV and the molar heat capacity at constant pres- Determination of C sure C . p p The energy DQ is supplied to the gas by the electrical heater: According to equations (1) and (2) and under isochoric condi- D D tions (V const., dV = 0), the following is true: Q = U · l · t (11) 1 dU C = · i (3) where V n dT U = the voltage which is applied to the heater wires (measured separately) and under isobaric conditions (p = const., dp = 0): I = the current, which flows through the heater wires (measured separately) 1 dUi 1 dV Dt = the period of time in which current flowed Cp = ( p ) (4) n dT dT through the wires Taking the equation of state for ideal gases into consideration: At constant pressure the temperature increase DT induces a volume increase DV From the equation of state for ideal gases, pV = n R T (5) it follows that: nR V it follows that the difference between Cp and CV for ideal DV = DT = DT (12) gases is equal to the universal gas constant R. p T and taking equation (2) into consideration, the following C – C = R (6) p V results from equations (11) and (12): It is obvious from equation (3) that the molar heat capacity C 1 U · I · Dt · V V C = · (13) is a function of the internal intrinsic energy of the gas. The p n DV · T PHYWE series of publications • Laboratory Experiments • Physics • PHYWE SYSTEME GMBH • 37070 Göttingen, Germany 23202 3 R LEP Heat capacity of gases 3.2.02 The molar volume of a gas at standard pressure p0= 1013 hPa Fig. 4: Volume change DV as a function of the heat-up time Dt. and T0 = 273.2K is: U = 4.70 V, I = 0.31 A.
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