BRAINCAKEPressure Law
For a fixed mass of gas of constant volume, the pressure is directly proportional to the temperature or
p/T = constant
If a graph of pressure against temperature is plotted then a straight line through the origin is obtained.
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Key terms in this lesson
- internal energy
- The sum of the randomly distributed kinetic and potential energies of the particles, atoms or molecules, of a system.