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Chapter 3-Matter
If you guys need some notes on matter, here's pretty much the whole chapter and we prob. hav dif. books but its still the same info so...use!!!!!!!!!
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09/08/2011

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States of Matter
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Solid, Liquid, Gas or Plasma
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Particles of Solid
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Do not move fast enough to overcome the attraction, but they are held tightly in place and vibrate in place
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Liquid Particles
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Can move past each other in order to take up the space in its container
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Gas particles
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Fast moving past each other and are not grouped together specifically
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Crystalline Solids
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Its particles have a very orderly arrangement such as a bat
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Amorphous Solid
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The particles do not have an orderly arrangement
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Liquids
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Change shape but not volume because the particles can move past each other-Even if they change shape, they do not neccessarily change volume.
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Hydraulics in liquids
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Because the particles in a liquid are close to one another, it is hard to push them closer together.
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Liquids form speherical drops as a result of--
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surface tension
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Helium is a
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Gas
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Boyle's Law-fancy terms
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States that for a fixed amount of gas at a constant temperature, the volume of the gas increases and the pressure decreases.
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Boyle's Law-Simple, Easy terms for understanding.
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If the temperature of a gas stays the same, but the pressure is taken off of the gas, the volume increases and the particles spread out.
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Charles's Law-Fancy Terms
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For am fixed amount of gas at a constant pressure,raising the temperature would also raise the volume of the gas.
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