Chemistry
Chemistry
Problem
An ideal gas is confined to a rigid container at . If the gas is heated to without changing its volume, by what factor does the pressure change?Intuitive explanation
This is a constant-volume heating problem—a direct application of Gay-Lussac's Law. Since the container is rigid, volume stays fixed, so pressure and absolute temperature are directly proportional. You just need to set up the ratio of final to initial pressure using the ideal gas law, where simplifies beautifully when , , and are constant.
Intuitive explanation
This is a constant-volume heating problem—a direct application of Gay-Lussac's Law. Since the container is rigid, volume stays fixed, so pressure and absolute temperature are directly proportional. You just need to set up the ratio of final to initial pressure using the ideal gas law, where simplifies beautifully when , , and are constant.