Ideal Gas Law Activity

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* Try runnning your code. You'll notice that our gas particle is currently escaping the box.

* Line 34: Add an if statement to check for when the gas particle collides with a wall.

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GlowScript 2.7 VPython
## Constants
L=1 #Give our container a length of 0.1m on each side
N_Avogodro=6.02E23 # Avogodro's constant
k_B=1.38E-23 # Boltzmann constant

## Gas information
mass = 4E-3/N_Avogodro # helium mass in kg/atom
Ratom=0.1 # exaggerated size of helium atom
T=300 # Temperature equals 300 K

## Calculate v_rms based on your gas
#v_rms=

## Setup a container with a gas particle inside
container = box(pos=vec(0,0,0), size=vec(L+2*Ratom,L+2*Ratom,L+2*Ratom), color=color.white, opacity=0.1)
particle = sphere(pos=vec(0,0,0), radius = Ratom, color = color.red)

## Assign the particle a fixed velocity
particle.velocity = vector(3000,0,0)

## Set up the time variables for the while loop
dt = 1E-6
t = 0

## While loop to iterate over the time interval
while True:
    rate(200) # Keeps animation slow enough to view
    
    ## Euler step to predict location of particle in a time dt
    particle.pos = particle.pos + particle.velocity*dt
    
    ## Add if statement here
    
    
    t = t + dt