How does molar mass affect pressure?

1 Answer
Nov 15, 2015

For ideal gas, no effect

Explanation:

Given the following ideal gas relation
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Energy of the molecules is given by
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setting
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Through rearrangement, we can get the following relation
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It can be noted from equation (2) that at a particular temperature, there will be one value for energy. This means that the change in mass will be compensated by change in velocity. If the mass increases, velocity will decrease.... and vice versa

Reference:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_theory#Temperature_and_kinetic_energy