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AP Physics 2
9.3 Thermal Energy Transfer and Equilibrium
9.1 Kinetic Theory of Temperature and Pressure
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A horizontal rectangle representing a cylinder is divided into two compartments by a vertical shaded bar representing a movable piston. The left compartment is labeled A and contains several small open circles representing gas particles of mass m. The right compartment is labeled B and contains several larger filled circles representing gas particles of mass 4m. A double-headed horizontal arrow above the piston indicates it is free to move. No other labels, lines, text, or axes appear.
Gas A and Gas B separated by a movable, thermally conducting piston.
A rigid cylinder is divided into two sealed compartments, A and B, by a movable, thermally conducting piston. Compartment A contains Gas A consisting of molecules with mass \(m\), and Compartment B contains Gas B consisting of molecules with mass \(4m\). After the system reaches thermal equilibrium at temperature \(T\), what are the ratio of the average translational kinetic energy per molecule \(\dfrac{K_A}{K_B}\) and the ratio of the root-mean-square speeds \(\dfrac{v_{A,\text{rms}}}{v_{B,\text{rms}}}\) of the gas molecules?

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