Physics A-Level
Pressure–temperature relationship
What Pressure–temperature relationship means in Physics A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Pressure–temperature relationship
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Measuring the pressure of a fixed mass of gas at constant volume as its temperature is varied gives a straight line when pressure is plotted against thermodynamic temperature.
Topics that use Pressure–temperature relationship
- Ideal gases (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Absolute zero
- Assumptions of ideal-gas behaviour
- Assumptions of kinetic theory
- Avogadro constant
- Boltzmann constant
- Gas laws
- Ideal gas assumptions
- Internal energy and the ideal-gas model
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