Republic of the Philippines

SORSOGON STATE COLLEGE

Sorsogon City Campus
ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT

Worksheet #24
Calculating Equilibrium Constant

Name: _________________________________________ Student No.: __________ Score: ________

Course & Year: _________________________ Instructor: Engr. Noel G. Benavides, Ph.D.

Directions: Solve the following problems.

1. The following reaction was allowed to come to equilibrium at 430 K.

SO2(g) + NO2(g)  NO(g) + SO3(g)
The equilibrium concentrations were analyzed and found to be: [SO2] = 1.31 M, [NO2] = 1.42 M, [NO] = 9.67 M,
[SO3] = 12.2 M. What is the value of Kc?

2. The following reaction was allowed to come to equilibrium at 419 K.

2NO(g) + O2(g)  2NO2(g)
The equilibrium concentrations were analyzed and found to be: [O2] = 0.768 M; [NO2] = 0.865 M; [NO] = 0.871
M. What is the value of Kc?

3. For the following reaction: PCl3(g) + Cl2(g)  PCl5(g)

The partial pressures at equilibrium were: P(PCl3) = 0.821 atm; P(Cl2) = 0.821 atm; P(PCl5) = 73.5 atm
What is the value of Kp?

4. For the following reaction: 2 NO(g) + Cl2(g)  2 NOCl(g)

The partial pressures at equilibrium were: P(NO) = 0.630 atm; P(Cl2) = 0.315 atm; P(NOCl) = 1.41 atm
What is the value of Kp?

5. For the following reaction, the value of Kc = 8.16. 2 NO2(g)  N2O4(g)

What is the value for Kp at 449 K?

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6. Nitrogen dioxide dimerizes to form dinitrogen tetraoxide: 2 NO2(g)  N2O4(g). Calculate the value of Kc, given
that the gas phase equilibrium constant, Kp, for the reaction is 1.3 × 103 at 273 K. (R = 0.08206 L·atm/mol·K)

7. Calculate the equilibrium constant for this reaction: 2 PO2Br (aq)  2 PO2 (aq) + Br2 (aq)
Given: [PO2Br] = 0.0255M, [PO2] = 0.155M, and [Br2] = 0.00351M at equilibrium.

8. Calculate the equilibrium constant Kc for this unbalanced reaction: 2 SO3 (g)  2 SO2 (g) + O2 (g)
Given: [SO3] = 0.0255M, [SO2] = 1.08M, and [O2] = 1.45M at equilibrium.

9. Use the equilibrium reaction: H2 (g) + I2 (g)  2 HI (g) to calculate Kc for each of the sets of equilibrium
concentrations below.

a. [H2] = 0.0505 M; [I2] = 0.0498 M; [HI] = 0.349 M

b. [H2] = 0.00560 M; [I2] = 0.000590 M; [HI] = 0.0127 M

c. [H2] = 0.00460 M; [I2] = 0.000970 M; [HI] = 0.0147 M

10. Calculate Kp for the following equilibrium at 250C if K = 0.042.

PCl5 (g)  PCl3 (g) + Cl2 (g)