Are gas molecules assumed to exert no forces of attraction or repulsion on each other?

1 Answer
Mar 7, 2018

Usually, but it's not true.

Explanation:

Many times, when we're doing calculations on gases, we assume that they're an ideal gas.
An ideal gas is a gas that basically follows the Kinetic Molecular Theory, and one postulate of the Kinetic Molecular Theory assumes that gas particles don't attract or repel each other.

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However, this isn't true—in real gases, intermolecular forces are present.