Physics A-Level
pV = NkT
What pV = NkT means in Physics A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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Relates pressure p, volume V, number of molecules N, Boltzmann constant k and thermodynamic temperature T, and is the per-particle form of pV = nRT.
A particle-based gas equation in which N counts molecules rather than moles.
Topics that use pV = NkT
- 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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