Smoke particles may be illuminated and observed under a microscope. The particles move with a rapid random motion called Brownian motion. The smoke particles are constantly hit by fast-moving air molecules, which are too small to see, and so keep changing direction.Avogadro's hypothesis states that equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure have the same number of molecules: NA = 6.02 × 1023 molecules which is the number of atoms in 12g of Carbon-12. This number is the Avogadro constant, and this amount of substance is one mole and the mass of one mole of a substance is called the molar mass.An ideal gas obeys Boyle's law. Combining Boyle's, Charles' and the Pressure Laws: pV = nRT (the ideal gas equation) where n is the number of moles and the molar gas constant R=8.31Jmol-1K-1 and T is in kelvin.
The Ideal Gas Equation
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Specification: OCR Physics A (H556), A-level, 5.1.4 Ideal gases. Topic: Gases.
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