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Date May 2018 Marks available [Maximum mark: 1] Reference code 18M.2.SL.TZ2.2a.i
Level SL Paper 2 Time zone TZ2
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18M.2.SL.TZ2.2a.i

An ideal monatomic gas is kept in a container of volume 2.1 × 10–4 m3, temperature 310 K and pressure 5.3 × 105 Pa.

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State what is meant by an ideal gas.

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a gas in which there are no intermolecular forces

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a gas that obeys the ideal gas law/all gas laws at all pressures, volumes and temperatures

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molecules have zero PE/only KE

 

Accept atoms/particles.

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