Kinetic theory of gases Archive

Pressure and temperature

This article provides answers to the following questions, among others:

What is the kinetic theory of gases?
What are the assumptions on which the kinetic theory of gases is based?
How can the pressure of a gas be explained on a microscopic level?
How can the gas pressure be calculated?
What is the relationship between the mean energy of the molecules and the temperature?
How is the internal energy of an ideal gas determined?
What statement does the equipartition theorem provide?
What is a degree of freedom in the thermodynamic sense?
Why does a direction of oscillation have two degrees of freedom?

This article provides answers to the following questions, among others:

This article provides answers to the following questions, among others:

This article provides answers to the following questions, among others:

What is the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution?
For which “substances” does the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution only apply?
How is the area under the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution to be interpreted?
How does the gas pressure and temperature influence the speed distribution of an ideal gas?
How can the process of evaporation of liquids be qualitatively explained with the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution?
With which speeds can the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution be characterized?
Why is temperature generally not a direct measure of the temperature of gases?
What is the relationship between the temperature and the average kinetic energy of the particles in an ideal gas?
How can an energy distribution function be derived from the speed distribution function?

This article provides answers to the following questions, among others:

This article provides answers to the following questions, among others:

This article provides answers to the following questions, among others:

This article provides answers to the following questions, among others:

What is the internal energy of a gas?
What are the characteristics of the thermal energy of a gas?
What is meant by a degree of freedom?
Why are degrees of freedom of vibration counted double?
Why do diatomic molecules have only two degrees of freedom of rotation?
What does the equipartition theorem state?
How can the internal energy of an ideal gas be determined on the basis of the degrees of freedom?
Why does the temperature of a gas rise during compression?
What does the molar heat capacity of a substance express?
What is an isochoric process and is the molar heat capacity determined in this context?
What is volume change energy?
What is an isobaric process?
What is an isochoric process and how is the molar heat capacity determined in this context?
What is the relationship between the molar heat capacity of the isobaric and the isochoric process?
What characterizes an “adiabatic” process and what parameter plays an important role?
What is meant by a “frozen” degree of freedom?
What is a perfect gas?
What does the Dulong-Petit law state?
What is the relationship between the molar heat capacities and the specific heat capacities?