A friend on Facebook recently posed a question of Science and I felt myself drawn to respond. they asked “WHY DOES PRESSURE INCREASE TEMPERATURE?” My evil self decided to answer. I answered thus:
Try to think of the relationship of pressure to motion/temperature like this:
put ten people in a room. they may move around some, but people will eventually find an equilibrium point where they are comfortable in their own personal space (except for that annoying couple over there making out, but forget about them for now). occasionally someone will shift, but no one else really minds; they are far enough away. now bring the walls in. at first everyone will condense towards the center, but soon they will filter back out to as comfortable spot as they can manage. now though, when one shifts, it causes him to be too close for the next person’s comfort, causing them to shift. Pressure has increased motion. Let us bring in the walls again. now everyone is too close to everyone else all of the time. everyone shifts back and forth on their feet, desperately trying to feel the comfort of their own personal space. discomfort now raises their body temperature, just as all of the shifting will as well. occasionally they even bump into each other, causing even bigger shifts through the crowd. Pressure has once again increased motion and temperature. once more, we bring the walls in, people are getting irritable now, and those around the couple begin to pull at and hit them to get them to cut it out, becuase it is way too uncomfortable to constantly be touching them while they snog (showing how high pressure/temp affect chemical reactions). when they break up, it causes only more motion and temp while everyone argues, scuffles and shifts away as best they can. again, we bring in the walls. pressure is now at maximum as the people turn their attention away from each other. those on the perimeter are pushing against the walls while those in the center are pushing and clawing at them. so we see that motion/temperature is now raised very high.
we contrast this by what happens next. once we bring in the walls just a bit more, all of the people are crushed to death (in chemistry, we would need another way to change their state, most likely). their body temeratures have now dropped severely and the motion has ended. these things have also brought the pressure way down. thus Pressure is directly related to Motion and Temperature.
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