Estimate the total number of air molecules (inclusive of oxygen, nitrogen, water vapour and other constituents) in a room of capacity 25.0 m3 at a temperature of 27 °C and 1 atm pressure.
Solution and Explanation
Volume of the room, V = 25.0 m3
Temperature of the room, T = 27°C = 300 K
Pressure in the room, P = 1 atm = 1 × 1.013 × 105 pa
The ideal gas equation relating pressure (P), Volume (V), and absolute temperature (T) can be written as:
PV = kB NT
Where,
KB is Boltzmann constant = 1.38 × 10-23 m-23 m2 lg s-2 K-1
N is the number of air molecules in the room
∴ \(N=\frac{PV}{K_BT}\)
\(=\frac{1.013×10^5×25}{1.38×10^{-23}×300}\) = 6.11 × 1026 molecules
= 6.11 × 10
Therefore, the total number of air molecules in the given room is 6.11 × 1026
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Concepts Used:
Ideal Gas Equation
An ideal gas is a theoretical gas composed of a set of randomly-moving point particles that interact only through elastic collisions.
What is Ideal Gas Law?
The ideal gas law states that the product of the pressure and the volume of one gram molecule of an ideal gas is equal to the product of the absolute temperature of the gas and the universal gas constant.
PV=nRT
where,
P is the pressure
V is the volume
n is the amount of substance
R is the ideal gas constant
Ideal Gas Law Units
When we use the gas constant R = 8.31 J/K.mol, then we have to plug in the pressure P in the units of pascals Pa, volume in the units of m3 and the temperature T in the units of kelvin K.