A fixed-volume vessel of 8.00×10−3m3 contains 0.0400mol of an ideal gas. The pressure of the gas is measured at four temperatures as shown.
Temperature (K): 260, 290, 320, 350
Pressure (kPa): 98.0, 99.2, 100.5, 101.7
Treating the data as linear, determine the experimental value of the universal gas constant.
a) 8.7Jmol−1K−1
b) 9.3Jmol−1K−1
c) 8.2Jmol−1K−1
d) 8.0Jmol−1K−1