ChemistryCode 9701

The gaseous state: ideal and real gases and pV = nRT

What this topic asks you to be able to do

  • account for the source of pressure in a gas by considering impacts of gas molecules against the walls of the container
  • understand that particles in an ideal gas occupy zero volume and exert no intermolecular forces of attraction
  • state and apply the ideal gas equation, pV = nRT, to problems, including when finding Mr