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How much gas is present could be specified by giving the mass instead of the chemical amount of gas. Therefore, an alternative form of the ideal gas law may be useful. The chemical amount, n (in moles), is equal to total mass of the gas (m) (in kilograms) divided by the molar mass, M (in kilograms per mole): =.
For example, the ideal gas law in terms of the Boltzmann constant is: =, where N is the number of particles (molecules in this case), or to generalize to an inhomogeneous system the local form holds: =, where n = N/V is the number density. Finally, by defining the kinetic energy associated to the temperature:
Raising the temperature of an object (increasing its thermal energy) increases its mass. For example, consider the world's primary mass standard for the kilogram, made of platinum and iridium. If its temperature is allowed to change by 1 °C, its mass changes by 1.5 picograms (1 pg = 1 × 10 −12 g). [note 5]
The van der Waals equation is a mathematical formula that describes the behavior of real gases.It is an equation of state that relates the pressure, temperature, and molar volume in a fluid.
We can solve for the temperature of the compressed gas in the engine cylinder as well, using the ideal gas law, PV = nRT (n is amount of gas in moles and R the gas constant for that gas). Our initial conditions being 100 kPa of pressure, 1 L volume, and 300 K of temperature, our experimental constant ( nR ) is:
As a simplifying assumption, the particles are usually assumed to have the same mass as one another; however, the theory can be generalized to a mass distribution, with each mass type contributing to the gas properties independently of one another in agreement with Dalton's law of partial pressures. Many of the model's predictions are the same ...
where P is the pressure of the gas, V is the volume of the gas, and k is a constant for a particular temperature and amount of gas.. Boyle's law states that when the temperature of a given mass of confined gas is constant, the product of its pressure and volume is also constant.
In thermodynamics, the specific volume of a substance (symbol: ν, nu) is the quotient of the substance's volume (V) to its mass (m): = It is a mass-specific intrinsic property of the substance. It is the reciprocal of density ρ and it is also related to the molar volume and molar mass: