If there is an Ideal Gas Law, wouldn’t there be an
Ideal Liquid Law
Ideal Solid Law
or we just describe the other states through Newton’s 2nd Law (forces)?
If there is an Ideal Gas Law, wouldn’t there be an
Ideal Liquid Law
Ideal Solid Law
or we just describe the other states through Newton’s 2nd Law (forces)?
Comments
No, the model of ideal gasses that lead to their law is that they are randomly bouncing around inside their container. The molecules of solids and liquids are far more constrained.
There is not.
Gases tend to behave a bit chaoticly. They can fluctuate in many ways that solids and liquids don’t. The ideal gas law states that given an ideal gas that is well behaved, how it should act under certain circumstances. It lets us predict pretty well how some gases will behave.
For other states of matter, they are a bit more well behaved and thus we don’t need to make predictions in this way.
I would note that newtons second law does not define all of forces. It defines Force, F=ma. Sorta like saying a car is defined by it moving very fast. There are a ton of laws that deal with the 4 fundamental forces, newtons second law is just one of them.
Ideal gas law can calculate volume change based on other factors. As the other commenter said there is no similar law for solids or liquids.
But you can calculate thermal expansion in solids, that could be thought of as a similar idea to the ideal gas law, but with fewer variables and therefore also less predictive power. There are some liquids that could be as well, but there are liquids like water that expand and contract at various temperatures so a pretty looking ideal law is not possible.