root-mean-square speed

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gaseous collisions

  • heated air expands
    In gas: Pressure

    …in terms of the so-called root-mean-square speed vrms. The vrms is the square root of the average of the squares of the speeds of the molecules: (v2)1/2. From equation (19) the vrms is (3RT/M)1/2. At 20° C the value for air (M = 29) is 502

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