Chemistry (4th Edition)

Published by McGraw-Hill Publishing Company
ISBN 10: 0078021529
ISBN 13: 978-0-07802-152-7

Chapter 10 - Questions and Problems - Page 471: 10.23

Answer

$587mm\space Hg$

Work Step by Step

We can determine the required pressure in $mm\space Hg$ as follows: According to Boyle's law $P_1V_1=P_2V_2$ This can be rearranged as follows: $P_2=\frac{P_1V_1}{V_2}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $P_2=\frac{1atm\times 7.15L}{9.25L}$ This simplifies to: $P_2=0.77297atm$ Now, this pressure in $mm\space Hg$ can be expressed as $P_2=0.77297atm\times \frac{760mm\space Hg}{1atm}=587mm\space Hg$
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