Re: temperature increases, volume decreases. why?
From: Kosmo Relmian (nospam_at_invalid.com)
Date: 06/30/04
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:23:33 -0500
"Anja" <anja@no.spam.com> wrote in message
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> Assume I have a gas in a cylinder that has a piston as a top. the system
is
> isolated. if I put a mass on top of the piston, then the pressure and
> temperature inside the cylinder will increase, while the volume will
> decrease.
> What is the physics behind the fact that the temperature increases and the
> volume decreases?
>
The poor atoms are pushed closer together, have more collisions per min
(hotter), have less volume, since they were squished down. Same thing
happens with teenagers at a dance.
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