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Chemistry · Ch 6 — Gaseous State

Concept Map

Concept Map

The textbook's concept map is built around the single title "Gaseous State," branching into two broad halves plus two smaller side-branches. The IDEAL GASES branch lists the four laws every gas obeys under all conditions -- Boyle's law V∝1/PV\propto1/P (T, n constant), Charles's law V∝TV\propto T (P, n constant), Gay-Lussac's law P∝TP\propto T (V, n constant), and Avogadro's hypothesis V∝nV\propto n (T, P constant) -- all converging into the single ideal gas equation PV=nRTPV=nRT. The REAL GASES branch instead obeys the van der Waals equation (P+an2V2)(V−nb)=nRT\left(P+\dfrac{an^2}{V^2}\right)(V-nb)=nRT, which feeds downward into the critical constants Tc=8a27RbT_c=\dfrac{8a}{27Rb}, Pc=a27b2P_c=\dfrac{a}{27b^2}, Vc=3bV_c=3b. A separate Diffusion branch leads to Graham's law of diffusion. A Critical phenomenon branch fans out into critical temperature, critical volume and critical pressure, which in turn connects to the liquefaction of gases via the Joule-Thomson effect -- ty …