where Cm is the total concentration of the gas mixture given as P/RT by the
ideal gas law. Thus, equation (2) can be written otherwise as [7]:
After each integration step, the cylinder gas temperature is deduced from the
ideal gas law.
The point can be made by first examining the
ideal gas law and then, a result from the inappropriate application of the virial theorem.
I ask a series of questions based on data from previous lab investigations and from class discussions to have students develop the mathematical expression of the
Ideal Gas Law. In their lab groups, students are asked to combine all variables from previously studied gas laws into one equation, PV = nRT.
Alternative approaches to the sizing formulas were attempted by the authors of this paper, but all efforts yielded that the
ideal gas law used by Lockhart and Carlson was the most appropriate.
The gas phase equation of state is the
ideal gas law:
The scandal over underinflated footballs kicked off a teachable moment about the
ideal gas law (SN Online: 6/18/15).
The gas inside the bubble is based on
ideal gas law and there is thermodynamic equilibrium at all times at the gas-liquid interface according to gas concentration (Henry law).
Wandering through the rows of students seated on laboratory stools, I expounded the virtues of the
Ideal Gas Law and how it expressed the relationship between pressure, volume and temperature in the reality of our everyday atmospheric conditions.
First, it specifies the range of pressures that the
Ideal Gas Law suggests the balls could have read given the temperature change from indoors to outdoors.