Chapter 9.1
Molecules in a Box: Temperature, Pressure, and the Ideal Gas Law
A tire's pressure is nothing but trillions of tiny collisions per second, and its temperature is how hard each one hits. Count the collisions and the gas law falls out.
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- 01Explain gas pressure as momentum delivered by molecular collisions per unit wall area
- 02Relate temperature to average molecular kinetic energy and read a speed distribution by its shape
- 03Apply the ideal gas law to relate pressure, volume, temperature, and amount of gas
- 04Read and draw pressure–volume and pressure–temperature graphs, including the extrapolation to absolute zero