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If you double the average speed of the molecules in a gas, by what factor does the pressure change?.

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Answer:

Quadruples

Step-by-step explanation:

Doubling this average velocity doubles the number of collisions between gas molecules and the walls of a container. It also doubles the impulse of each collision. Thus the pressure quadruples.

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