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adolph 3 days ago

Can an ideal gas of same volume, mass and temperature be brought to different pressures?

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-physics/chapter/13-3-...

amluto 3 days ago | parent [-]

Not unless you change the average mass of the molecules.

An ideal gas’ pressure is a function of number of particles per unit volume, its temperature, and nothing else. If you do anything involving adding or removing heat or changing the volume or pressure, you probably also need to know the specific heat at constant volume and the specific heat at constant pressure or, frequency, their ratio. That ratio is called the adiabatic index or the heat capacity ratio, it’s written as gamma, and it’s the last parameter in the speed of sound of an ideal gas. Interestingly, it doesn’t vary all that much between different gasses.