Example · Example 3
Q.A sample of nitrogen gas is at temperature . At what temperature would the RMS speed of its molecules be double the value at ?
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Since , for a fixed gas (fixed ) . Writing this as a ratio between the two states,
Given ,
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The RMS speed doubles only when the absolute temperature quadruples, so .
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