In about 50 BCE, the Roman philosopher Lucretius proposed that apparently static macroscopic bodies were … See more

The application of kinetic theory to ideal gases makes the following assumptions:
• The gas consists of very small particles. This smallness of their size is such that the sum of the volume of the individual gas molecules i… See more

In the kinetic theory of gases, the pressure is assumed to be equal to the force (per unit area) exerted by the individual gas atoms or molecules hitting and rebounding from the gas container's surface.
Consider a … See more

The kinetic theory of gases deals not only with gases in thermodynamic equilibrium, but also very importantly with gases not in thermodynamic equilibrium. This means using Kinetic Theory to consider what are known as "t… See more