If an ideal gas is kept inside a container with movable piston, and is allowed to expand ISOTHERMALLY, then pressure exerted by the gas on the container wall decreses. Why?
What happens to the rate of collision of gas particles with container walls?
Solution) Isothermal expansion T = constant
Hence PV = const
As for expansion volume increases hence pressure decreases
As P = 1/2 rho V^2
as p decreases v decreases which is rms speed of gas molecules and thus rate of collision of gas particl;es in container decrease