Particles in gases - AQAPressure and temperature

Gases take up more space than solids or liquids and their particles are moving much faster. The temperature, pressure and volume of gases are all related.

Part ofCombined ScienceParticle model of matter

Pressure and temperature

If the of a container with a gas inside stays the same, the pressure of a gas increases as its increases.

As a result, the gas particles will be travelling faster and will collide with the walls of the container more frequently, and with more .

This means that there is a between and temperature. If a pressure gauge is connected to a flask of air and the flask is heated, a graph of pressure against temperature can be produced.

Graph of pressure against temperature. The line starts at 0 degrees C and three units of pressure, rising steadily to six units of pressure at 100 degrees C.

As the temperature increases, the pressure increases showing that pressure is directly to temperature.