Molar volume; ideal gases and transfer of momentum; Boltzmann's constant.

Statement; Avogadro's number and relation to atomic masses.

Molar volume; ideal gases and transfer of momentum; Boltzmann's constant.

Comparison of pressures at different T; measurements of P using gauge when at room T and in boiling water.

Phase diagrams and transitions; example of CO₂ inside fire extinguisher which is not all gas, with calculation to verify.

General properties of fluids; temperature defined; heat and temperature; pressure defined; pressure versus height; buoyancy forces; Bernoulli's equation.

Ideal gas law defined (pV = nRT = NkT); work and heat as processes leading to changes of state; gas properties; kinematics and dynamics of gas molecules; degrees of freedom of motion for gas molecule; equipartition theorem; derivation of ideal gas law; ideal atmosphere and isothermal atmosphere.

Ideal gas law defined; ideal gas assumptions and gas properties; pressure of a gas; degrees of freedom for a molecule; kinetic energy and temperature.

Motion of an oxygen molecule modeled as an ideal gas.

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Analyzing an apparatus used to measure the speeds of gas molecules.

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Volume of an ascending weather balloon.

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Finding the air pressure at the top of a mountain.

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Finding the pressure inside a bottle of helium.

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Properties of a contained ideal gas.

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