Sancho's Gases Lesson Notes For Advanced level

GASES LESSON NOTES FOR ADVANCED LEVEL

OBJECTIVES OF THE TOPIC:

After studying this topic, you will be able to:

♠ describe the gas laws; Boyle’s law, Charles’s law and gas equation

♠ use general gas equation and ideal gas equation to carry out calculations based

on the gas laws

♠ describe the Avogadro’s law, Graham’s law and Dalton’s partial pressure

♠ describe the characteristics of a gas as influenced by pressure, volume, and

temperature changes.

♠ explain the kinetic theory of gases and assumptions leading to the fundamental

kinetic equation.

♠ use the fundamental kinetic equation to deduce the gas laws.

♠ describe molecular masses and relative densities of gasses.

♠ describe different methods used to find molecular masses of gases.

♠ explain the abnormal relative densities of vapour