CHEM 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ammonium Nitrate, West Australian Music Industry Awards, Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building

• School: Emory University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 142
• Professor: Mulford Douglas

Document Summary

Learning objectives: be able to explain the postulates of kinetic molecular theory, be able to use kmt explain each of the simple gas laws. The kinetic-molecular theory: a model for gas behavior. In the case of ideal gases, this theory is the kinetic molecular theory (kmt). Volume of gas particles are so small compared to container volume, they are considered to have mass, but no volume. Particles in constant, random, straight-line motion except when they collide with each other or the container walls. Collisions are elastic (total kinetic energy (ek) of the particles is constant). Each gas particle collides with the wall of the container providing a very small forces over a very small area. Kmt assumes that the size of the individual gas particles compared to the container volume is sooooo small that we can assume the particles take up no volume (not true, but works within significance for most samples).