Two gases $A$ and $B$ having same pressure $P$, volume $V$ and absolute temperature $T$ are mixed. If the…

Two gases $A$ and $B$ having same pressure $P$, volume $V$ and absolute temperature $T$ are mixed. If the mixture has the volume and temperature as $V$ and $T$ respectively, then the pressure of the mixture is
  1. $2 P$
  2. $P$
  3. $\frac{P}{2}$
  4. $4 P$

Solution

The total pressure exerted by a mixture of non-reacting gases occupying a vessel is equal to the sum of the individual pressures which each gas exert if it alone occupied the same volume at a given temperature. For two gases $P=R_1+P_2=P+P=2 P$

Asked in: AP EAMCET 2007

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