Physics GCSE
origin of gas pressure
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Pressure comes from collisions: molecules strike the walls of the container and rebound, and the total force from all those impacts, divided by the wall area, is the pressure.
Topics that use origin of gas pressure
- Particle motion in gases (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Boyle's Law
- Inversely Proportional
- Kinetic Theory of Gases
- mean kinetic energy
- particle model of a gas
- Pressure (gas)
- random motion
- Temperature
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