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The document discusses gas pressure and atmospheric pressure. It explains that atmospheric pressure decreases with altitude and describes how gas pressure inside a container increases with temperature as the rate of molecular collisions with the container walls increases.

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The document discusses gas pressure and atmospheric pressure. It explains that atmospheric pressure decreases with altitude and describes how gas pressure inside a container increases with temperature as the rate of molecular collisions with the container walls increases.

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Chapter 3

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Forces And Pressure

Gas Pressure And Atmospheric Pressure (I)


Atmospheric Pressure
Atmospheric
pressure
Magdeburg hemispheres needed
Pull Vacuum Pull
18 horses to be pulled apart.

Water vapour
Low
Metal pressure
can Atmospheric
pressure
Water
Metal can is cooled by
Heat pouring cold water
Cyclone moving at high speed The metal can becomes distorted on cooling as the
surrounding a centre of low atmospheric pressure is greater than the air pressure
atmospheric pressure. inside the can.

Atmospheric Pressure Decreases Gas Pressure In A Container


With Altitude
Temperature = T
1 atmosphere = 760 mm Hg Gas pressure = P
= 10.3 m water
Temperature > T
= 101 300 Pa Gas pressure > P
1 millibar = 100 Pa Velocity of molecules increases
at higher temperature
Decreasing atmospheric pressure Temperature = T
Gas pressure > P because more
Ozone layer molecules collide with the wall
40 km of container
30 km The gas pressure inside a container
Stratosphere
20 km depends on the rate of collision of gas
Cloud cirrus Mount molecules with the walls.
Everest 10 km
Troposphere At higher temperature, molecules move
Cloud cumulus faster and the rate of collision increases.
Sea level 0 km
Hence, pressure increases.

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