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Hard-Sphere Atoms

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Why do gases obey the simple ideal gas law so well? Even gases of more complicated entities such as CH4 behave the same way. This fact suggests that the internal structure of the entities has little, if anything, to do with the gas law. The observed similarities of the properties of all gases must arise from properties that are common to all atoms and molecules. What then is the least we need to assume about the particles of gas that will explain the gas law?

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  1. Charles A. Dana Professor of Physics, Emeritus, 231 Pearl St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, USA

    Charles H. Holbrow

  2. Department of Physics & Astronomy, Colgate University, 37 University Ave., Hamilton, New York, 13346, USA

    James N. Lloyd (Professor of Physics, Emeritus)

  3. William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Physics, Emeritus Department of Physics & Astronomy, Colgate University, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, New York, 13346, USA

    Joseph C. Amato

  4. Department of Physics & Astronomy, Colgate University, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, New York, 13346, USA

    Enrique Galvez (Professor of Physics) & M. Elizabeth Parks (Associate Professor of Physics)

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Holbrow, C.H., Lloyd, J.N., Amato, J.C., Galvez, E., Parks, M.E. (2009). Hard-Sphere Atoms. In: Modern Introductory Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79080-0_5

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