Kinetic Theory & the Gas Laws
Try this: Push the piston in to halve the box. What happens to the pressure?
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About this simulation
A few hundred molecules in a box. The pressure is measured from the impulse they deliver to the walls, not assumed.
Taught in Kinetic Theory & the Gas Laws
- kinetic theory
- ideal gas law
- temperature
- Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution
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