Properties of Gases

What are the properties of gases and how do gases respond to the environment?

Expansion

Gases can spread out to fit the volume of whatever container they are in

Low Density

Gases are the thinnest possible form of matter and they consist of mostly empty space

Diffusion

Gas particles move from where there are more of them to where there are less of them ([] gradient)

Compression

Gases can be forced into smaller and smaller spaces

Fluidity

Gas particles move simularly to liquids in that they both flow and this is whay both liquids and gases are called fluids

Effusion

Gas particles can pass through tiny openings

What is Volume

The amount of space occupied by a substance

What is temperature

A measure of how fast the particles of a substance are moving becayse of their energy

WHat is pressure

Pressure is continuis force exerted on an object or a force acting on an area where the higher amount of force produce a higher pressure

How does a gas exert pressure

When a gas is in an enclosed space, the particles bouncing against the edges of a container creates an internal pressure.

What are the laws that gases follow

Boyles’s Law, Charles’s Law, Gay-Lussac’s Law

What law relates a gas’s volume and it’s pressure?

Boyle’s law

What does Boyle’s Law state?

At a constant temperature, the volume of a gas and the pressure of the gas are inversly proportionally (opposite)