The rmsspeed of molecules in a gas is 600m/s. What will be the rms speed if the gas pressure and volume are both halved?

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The rmsvelocity of volume is 300m/s.

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Definition of gas law 

Gas laws are rules that govern how a gas's pressure, volume, and temperature are related.

The ideal gas law, , is a single generalisation of the behaviour of gases known as an equation of state, where n is the number of gram-moles of a gas and R is the universal gas constant

.PV=nRT

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Explanation

It's important to know that, according to the ideal gas law,

pV=nRT

The heat is proportional to the heat product, in other words. As a result, doubling each of these will give you a temperature that is one-fourth of what it was before.

The formula giving the rmsspeed is

vrms=3kBTm=CT,

where Cis a constant. It is therefore clear that if the temperature will become a fourth of the initial one, the rmsspeed will be one half of the initial one. That is, the new speed will be

vnew=12v=6002=300m/s

Bear in mind that this problem can also be answered by looking at two different systems, one liquid-liquid and the other isothermal, and seeing if the formulas for speed as a function of temperature and pressure arrive at the same conclusion.

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The rms speed of volume

The rmsspeed of volume is 300m/s. As the value of temperature and pressure ,respectively.

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