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Topic 10 – The Gaseous State

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GAS PRESSURE AND ITS MEASUREMENT
Pressure
Units of pressure
Measuring pressure
Atmospheric pressure
Pressure of gases
Closed-tube manometer
Open-ended manometer
EMPIRICAL GAS LAWS
Boyle’s Law:  Pressure-Volume relationship
Charles’ Law: Temperature-Volume relationship
Gay-Lussac’s Law:  Temperature-Pressure relationship
Avogadro’s Law:  Quantity-Volume relationship
DERIVED GAS LAWS
Combined Gas Law
Ideal Gas Law
Mathematical derivation
Calculations using the Ideal Gas Law
Calculations involving just P, V, n, and T
Calculations involving mass or molar mass, P, V, n, and T
Calculations involving density and molar mass
STOICHIOMETRY AND THE IDEAL GAS LAW
GAS MIXTURES
Partial pressures and mole fractions
Dalton’s Law of Partial Pressures
Partial pressure
Mole fraction
Relationship between mole fraction and partial pressure
Gases collected over water
KINETIC THEORY
Definition
The five postulates of the Kinetic Theory of Ideal Gases
Gases are composed of particles, atoms or molecules, whose size can be considered to be negligible.
Gas particles are in continuous random motion.
The attractive forces between particles have a negligible effect on their behavior.
Collisions between gas particles are elastic.
The average kinetic energy of a particle is directly proportional to the absolute temperature.
EXPLAINING THE GAS LAWS FROM THE KINETIC THEORY 
Explaining Gay-Lussac’s Law
Explaining Boyle’s Law
Explaining Charles’ Law
Explaining Avogadro’s Law
Explaining the Ideal Gas Law
DIFFUSION AND EFFUSION AND THE KINETIC THEORY
Diffusion
Effusion
Graham’s Law
Root-mean-square molecular speed
REAL GASES
Conditions under which real gases deviate from ideal gases
Two assumptions that do not hold true for real gases
That the volume of the gas particles themselves is effectively zero
That there is no force of attraction between gas particles
Two conditions under which the behavior of real gases deviate significantly from the behavior of ideal gases.
High pressure
Low temperature
In general, the closer a gas is to the liquid state the more it will deviate from the Ideal Gas Law.   
Real gases adhere to a corrected form of the Ideal Gas Law Equation called the van der Waals Equation.