diff --git a/docs/sch3uz.md b/docs/sch3uz.md index ed7d1f2..8b776a9 100644 --- a/docs/sch3uz.md +++ b/docs/sch3uz.md @@ -391,6 +391,18 @@ Although the solution may be kept in the flask briefly, if it is not used soon i - Warnings/dangers as according to GHS - Protective equipment and precautions required +### Gas laws + +According to the **kinetic molecular theory**, gases are largely empty empty space with partiles moving randomly in straight lines due to weak or no intermolecular forces acting on them. Gas particles: + + - move in all directions, + - are much smaller than the spaces between them, + - do not have any forces of attraction or repulsion between them, + - elastically collide with one another, and + - have movement directly proportional to the temperature in Kelvin such that $E_k\proptoT$. + +Because gases are the only state of matter that have negligible intermolecular forces within the substance and so move independently of one another, they are the only **compressible** state of matter. + ## 2.1 - Atoms !!! definition