2.6: Ideal Gas Behavior

Unit 7 Objectives

By the end of this unit, you will be able to:

• Define the property of temperature and pressure
• Define and convert among the units of temperature and pressure
• Describe the operation of common tools for measuring gas pressure
• Identify the mathematical relationships between the various properties of gases
• Use the ideal gas law, and related gas laws, to compute the values of various gas properties under specified conditions
• Use the ideal gas law to compute gas densities and molar masses
• Perform stoichiometric calculations involving gaseous substances
• State Dalton’s law of partial pressures and use it in calculations involving gaseous mixtures
• State the postulates of the kinetic-molecular theory
• Use this theory’s postulates to explain the gas laws