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And so. Hello, you're listening to the Science of Everything podcast, episode 42, gases and gas laws. Now, I'm your host, James Fodor. In this episode, we're listening to The Science of Everything podcast, episode 42, gases and gas laws.

Now, I'm your host, James Fodor.

In this episode, we're going to look at the properties and behavior of gases, focusing on the kinetic theory of gases and also the ideal gas law.

I'll talk about some of the thermodynamic behaviors of gases, I'll talk about partial gas pressures,

and also I'll introduce the concept of PV diagrams and how those are

useful for understanding gas behaviors. Recommended prerequisites for this episode are episode 9,

matter and molecules, and episode 13 on Eutonian Mechanics. Well, basically just a little bit of

background on atoms, molecules, nature of matter, and forces and things like that. It should be

helpful for this episode. Okay, let's get started. So first of all,

we'll talk about the properties of gases and what we mean when we say gas. So gases are, a gas is

one of the fundamental states of matter, along with liquid and solid and plasma and some other

more exotic ones as well. Gases consist of tiny particles. Okay, all matter consists of tiny

particles, but the key thing is gases, in gases, the particles are widely spaced, so there's a lot of space in between them, empty space.

And it's important to understand, when we say empty space, you don't mean air, because air

is itself a gas. That is air itself is composed of tiny particles with lots of space in between

them. That space is essentially vacuum, like there's literally nothing there. Well, I mean, there are some, you know, some atomic particles and various something. But basically, for our purposes, it's literally empty space.

Under typical conditions, the average distance between gas particles is about 10 times a diameter

of the particles themselves. The individual particles could be atoms, or there could be molecules.

Generally, they're fairly small molecules like H2O. In that's gas form, that's just a water molecule, two hydrogens and one oxygen, or

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