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Why expansion of real gases lead to cooling?
Paul Hewitt writes in his book
Expansion of real gases lead to cooling as average translational kinetic energy per molecule decreases.
The reason given is:
During Expansion molecules collide with ...
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Kelvin and kinetic theory of gases
I know that the degree of freedom increase by 2 when the temperature is high and decrease by 2 when the temperature is low. A dumb question here, what temperature is considered as 'high temperature' ...
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