Consider a sample of oxygen behaving like an ideal gas. At $300 K$ , the ratio of root-mean-square (RMS) velocity to the average velocity of the gas molecule would be :
(Molecular weight of oxygen is $32 g {mol}^{- 1}; R = 8.3 J K^{- 1} {mol}^{- 1}$ )

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Consider a sample of oxygen behaving like an ideal gas. At $300 K$ , the ratio of root-mean-square (RMS) velocity to the average velocity of the gas molecule would be :

(Molecular weight of oxygen is $32 g {mol}^{- 1}; R = 8.3 J K^{- 1} {mol}^{- 1}$ )

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v r m s = 3 R T M v a v g = 8 π R T M v r m s v a v g = 3 π 8

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