Main Table of Contents

  0: Introduction
  1: Ideal gas
  2: Gas pressure
  3: Boyle's and Charles' gas laws
  4: Avogadro's number and moles
  5: Ideal gas law
  6: Sample problem: tank of air
  7: Interactive problem: pressure of an ideal gas
  8: Interactive checkpoint: volume of an ideal gas
  9: Gas pressure, volume and kinetic energy
10: Kinetic energy and temperature
11: Root mean square
12: Rms speed of gas molecules and temperature
13: Derivation: rms speed of molecules and temperature
14: Mean free path
15: Derivation: the mean free path
16: Sample problem: mean free path of nitrogen atmosphere
17: Interactive checkpoint: mean free path in a balloon
18: Maxwell's speed distribution curve
19: Interactive problem: speed distribution
20: Mathematics of the Maxwell curve
21: Derivation: most probable speed
22: Sample problem: time between collisions
23: Gotchas
24: Summary

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