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Number of gas molecules in auditorium

With the equation of state we can calculate how many gas molecules are in this lecture hall. The volume is approximately tex2html_wrap_inline153 mtex2html_wrap_inline155 the temperature T=300 K and the pressure is about tex2html_wrap_inline159 Pascal. Solving Eq 9 for the number of moles of gas we get
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Putting in numbers we get
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Collin Broholm
Mon Nov 24 22:28:02 EST 1997