What is the effect of increasing the temperature of a gas on its pressure, assuming volume is constant?
Correct Answer: Pressure increases with temperature.
- Step 1: Understand that we are looking at a gas in a closed container where the volume cannot change.
- Step 2: Know that temperature is a measure of how hot or cold something is, and it affects the energy of gas particles.
- Step 3: Realize that when you increase the temperature of the gas, the particles move faster because they have more energy.
- Step 4: As the gas particles move faster, they collide with the walls of the container more often and with greater force.
- Step 5: These more frequent and forceful collisions increase the pressure of the gas inside the container.
- Step 6: Remember that this relationship between temperature and pressure at constant volume is described by Gay-Lussac's law.
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