Solution: A Constant-Volume Gas Thermometer. An experimenter

Chapter 17, Problem 17.9

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A Constant-Volume Gas Thermometer. An experimenter using a gas thermometer found the pressure at the triple point of water (0.01C) to be 4.80 * 104 Pa and the pressure at the normal boiling point (100C) to be 6.50 * 104 Pa. (a) Assuming that the pressure varies linearly with temperature, use these two data points to find the Celsius temperature at which the gas pressure would be zero (that is, find the Celsius temperature of absolute zero). (b) Does the gas in this thermometer obey Eq. (17.4) precisely? If that equation were precisely obeyed and the pressure at 100C were 6.50 * 104 Pa, what pressure would the experimenter have measured at 0.01C? (As we will learn in Section 18.1, Eq. (17.4) is accurate only for gases at very low density.)

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