Gas Lab — Ideal Gas Laws and Kinetic Theory for A Level Physics
Build your own gas-law investigation in Free Lab. Drag a piston, lock variables, compare molecular speeds, record graphs and export results, with guided AQA and OCR A Level experiments and challenges.
Learning guide and suggested activities
What this tool shows
Free investigations with editable pressure, volume, temperature, amount and molar mass
Seven guided investigations, three challenges and recorded gas-law graphs
Molecular speed distributions and momentum changes at walls
OCR A relevance
Module 5: Thermal physics
Ideal gas equation
Kinetic theory of gases
AQA relevance
AQA 7408 section 3.6.2.2: ideal gases
AQA 7408 section 3.6.2.3: molecular kinetic theory
AQA Paper 2 calculations and explanations
Try these tasks
Hold temperature constant and halve volume. What happens to pressure?
Keep pressure constant and double temperature. What happens to volume?
Link the average kinetic energy of particles to temperature.