Physics GCSE
Closed systems
What Closed systems means in Physics GCSE, as defined for OCR.
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The number of particles and the volume are fixed, so the reasoning relating temperature and pressure is kept to these systems.
A system in which no energy enters or leaves from outside, so the total energy stays the same.
Topics that use Closed systems
Related terms
- Atmospheric pressure and weight of air
- Cause-and-effect explanation
- Collisions with container walls
- Comparing pressures at different heights
- Conservation of energy
- Constant temperature and constant average particle speed
- Density and depth
- density comparison
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