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Why gasses expand when heated?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Conservatiojn of Energy is the reason gases expand when heatd. Gas energy is PV= RT, when Temperature T increases then RdT = PdV + VdP if the pressure is constant the dP=0 then RdT= PdV meaning the gas expands.

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