NB: The 'Handful' Story Is My Own Simplified Way of Understanding This. It's Not Really A Thing

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The total partial pressure of a gas is the sum

of the partial pressures of its components

Patm = 101.3 kPa = 760 mmHg


Dalton's law

Standard Temperature and Pressure


273.15K or 0C

Ptot = P1 + P2 + P3
As atmospheric pressure , the Ptot of
respiratory gas will , resulting in in the Pa
of the component gases including O

If any of the components increase, the others


will decrease so that the total remains the same
e.g. Pa(HO) with resp humidification reducing
the partial pressures of the other components
including PaO from 20.9 kPa to 20

The Ideal Gas


VAN (no Volume, no
Attraction, Newtonian)

Partial Pressure

The molecules' Volume is negligible

The molecules to not Attract each other


Implications

At constant Temperature, pressure is inversely


proportional to volume P 1/V

The molecules obey Newton's Laws of motion

Equal volumes of gases (at the same


temperature and pressure) contain equal
numbers of molecules
Boyle's Law
Na = 6.02 x 10 atoms

The Gas Laws


At constant Pressure, volume is directly
proportional to temperature V T

Definition:
1 mole = 12g of Carbon-12 = 6.02 x 10 atoms

Charles's Law
Mole (n)

At constant Volume, Pressure is directly


proportional to Temperature P T

Boyle + Charles + Gay-Lussac PV T


For the same gas under different conditions:
PV/T = PV/ T

Gay-Lussac Law

What it actually means:


6.02 x 10 (a 'handful' of) atoms of substance X

Avagadro's Law and Constant

The mass of 6.02 x 10 atoms of a given substance,


measured in g.mol
i.e. What 1 handful of atoms of substance X weighs

Combined Gas Laws


Molar Mass (M)

n = m/M (moles = mass / Molar Mass)


i.e. How many handfuls of atoms are there in a
given mass of substance X

Combined Gas Law + Na + Molar Gas


Constant pV = nRT
Universal Gas Law

NB: The 'handful' story is my own simplified way of understanding this. It's not really a thing

/The Gas Laws/Universal Gas Law

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