Concept — Relationship between pressure, volume, temperature and moles of an ideal gas.
Present in chapters
09·10
Linked atoms
26 linked atoms.
09 Teoria cinetica dei gas
- What is an ideal gas
- Derivation of the ideal gas law
- The P-V diagram and the critical point
- The Van der Waals equation
- Microscopic origin of pressure
- Problem — Expansion at constant pressure
- Problem — Proof that PV = nRT
- Problem — Van der Waals isotherm below T_c
- Problem — Isotherm on a logarithmic scale
- Problem — Boyle’s law
- Problem — Moles and molecules in a gas cylinder
- Problem — Tyre on the motorway
- Problem — Pressure of an ideal gas
- Problem — Ranking pressures by temperature
- Problem — Fermi estimate: molecules in a room
- Problem — Temperature that doubles the pressure
10 Trasformazioni irreversibili e bilancio energetico
- The first law as an energy balance
- Heating at constant pressure: the coefficient Cp
- Worked example — Heating under the piston