Summary of Gases

This text summarizes key points related to gas pressure; relating pressure, volume, amount, & temperature: the ideal gas law; stoichiometry of gaseous substances, mixtures, & reactions; effusion & diffusion of gases; the kinetic-molecular theory; and non-ideal gas behaviour.

Topics

  • absolute zero
  • Amontons’s law
  • atmosphere
  • atm
  • Avogadro’s law
  • bar
  • barometer
  • Boyle’s law
  • Charles’s law
  • compressibility factor
  • Z
  • Dalton’s law of partial pressures
  • diffusion
  • effusion
  • Graham’s law of effusion
  • hydrostatic pressure
  • ideal gas
  • ideal gas constant
  • R
  • ideal gas law
  • kinetic molecular theory
  • manometer
  • mean free path
  • mole fraction
  • X
  • partial pressure
  • pascal
  • Pa
  • pounds per square inch
  • psi
  • pressure
  • rate of diffusion root mean square velocity
  • urms
  • standard conditions of temperature and pressure
  • STP
  • standard molar volume
  • torr
  • van der Waals equation
  • vapor pressure of water