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What causes particles to move back and forth?
Particles in solids are always vibrating (moving back and forth) in place. The vibrational motion of particles in solids is kinetic energy. Heat makes the particles in a solid vibrate faster, giving them more kinetic energy. Faster-vibrating particles bump into one another more often and hit each other harder.
Which wave causes particles to move back and forth in place?
P waves, also called compressional or longitudinal waves, give the transmitting medium—whether liquid, solid, or gas—a back-and-forth motion in the direction of the path of propagation, thus stretching or compressing the medium as the wave passes any one point in a manner similar to that of sound waves in air.
Which particles move around from place to place?
gas vibrate and move freely at high speeds. liquid vibrate, move about, and slide past each other. solid vibrate (jiggle) but generally do not move from place to place.
What changes occur in particle motion?
Particles move rapidly in all directions but collide with each other more frequently than in gases due to shorter distances between particles. With an increase in temperature, the particles move faster as they gain kinetic energy, resulting in increased collision rates and an increased rate of diffusion.
What is particle motion?
Particle motion is the superposition of a large component due to the fluid drag toward the filter barrier and a random component due to brownian motion. We introduce the Peclet number Pe, which is the ratio between convective and diffusive displacement : –
Why do particles move faster in one direction than another?
Particles move rapidly in all directions but collide with each other more frequently than in gases due to shorter distances between particles. With an increase in temperature, the particles move faster as they gain kinetic energy, resulting in increased collision rates and an increased rate of diffusion.
What happens to particles when they collide with something?
Regardless of how close particles are to each other, they all move in random motion-movement in all directions and at different speeds. However, particles will move in straight lines until they collide with something. Collisions usually change the speed and direction of the particles movements.
How do particles move in a liquid container?
In liquids, particles are quite close together and move with random motion throughout the container. Particles move rapidly in all directions but collide with each other more frequently than in gases due to shorter distances between particles.
How does the speed of particles change with temperature?
In gases the particles move rapidly in all directions, frequently colliding with each other and the side of the container. With an increase in temperature, the particles gain kinetic energy and move faster. The actual average speed of the particles depends on their mass as well as the temperature – heavier particles move more slowly