Background: Shown in the Figure below is a cylinder of gas on the left that is at room temperature (300 K). On the right, the cylinder has been heated until the Kelvin temperature has doubled to 600 K. The kinetic energy of the gas molecules increases, so collisions with the walls of the container are now more forceful than they were before. As a result, the pressure of the gas doubles. Decreasing the temperature would have the opposite effect, and the pressure of an enclosed gas would decrease.

Situation: A chef is preparing ribs for his clients dinner tonight. He decides to use a pressure cooker to help keep them nice and tender. He loads the ribs in the pressure cooker and closes the latches which are relatively easy to clamp down. After cooking for a while the latches seem much tighter and the lid much harder to move.

Question: Will adding heat to the sealed pressure cooker increase or decrease it's internal pressure?
Answer: increase

Situation: A chef is preparing ribs for his clients dinner tonight. He decides to use a pressure cooker to help keep them nice and tender. He loads the ribs in the pressure cooker and closes the latches which are relatively easy to clamp down. After cooking for a while the latches seem much tighter and the lid much harder to move.

Question: Given the chef turns off the pressure cooker allowing the air to cool down, will the internal pressure increase or decrease?
Answer: decrease

Situation: A chef is preparing ribs for his clients dinner tonight. He decides to use a pressure cooker to help keep them nice and tender. He loads the ribs in the pressure cooker and closes the latches which are relatively easy to clamp down. After cooking for a while the latches seem much tighter and the lid much harder to move.

Question: Will cooling down a gas in a sealed container cause the pressure inside the container to increase or decrease?
Answer: decrease

Situation: A chef is preparing ribs for his clients dinner tonight. He decides to use a pressure cooker to help keep them nice and tender. He loads the ribs in the pressure cooker and closes the latches which are relatively easy to clamp down. After cooking for a while the latches seem much tighter and the lid much harder to move.

Question: Will the amount of kinetic energy of gas molecules increase or decrease as their temperature rises?
Answer: increase

Situation: Gwen owns a sauna. She wants to try something new and decides to make the room air tight, meaning no air can escape the room. After trialing this with a few customers she asks them for some feedback. The customers say they really like how there is never a draft in the room but they feel weird when they leave the room and their ears pop like when they are are on an airplane and the pressure is uneven.

Question: Will the pressure of a sealed container increase or decrease when a gas inside it is heated?
Answer: increase

Situation: Gwen owns a sauna. She wants to try something new and decides to make the room air tight, meaning no air can escape the room. After trialing this with a few customers she asks them for some feedback. The customers say they really like how there is never a draft in the room but they feel weird when they leave the room and their ears pop like when they are are on an airplane and the pressure is uneven.

Question: Given a gas at 200 K, will raising the temperature cause the kinetic energy to increase or decrease?
Answer: increase

Situation: Gwen owns a sauna. She wants to try something new and decides to make the room air tight, meaning no air can escape the room. After trialing this with a few customers she asks them for some feedback. The customers say they really like how there is never a draft in the room but they feel weird when they leave the room and their ears pop like when they are are on an airplane and the pressure is uneven.

Question: Given two containers of identical volume and the same amount and type of gas inside them, one at 300 K the other at 600 K, which container will have more pressure, the container at 300 K or the container at 600 K?
Answer: 600 K

Situation: Gwen owns a sauna. She wants to try something new and decides to make the room air tight, meaning no air can escape the room. After trialing this with a few customers she asks them for some feedback. The customers say they really like how there is never a draft in the room but they feel weird when they leave the room and their ears pop like when they are are on an airplane and the pressure is uneven.

Question: Which has lower kinetic energy, steam at 300 K or steam at 700 K?
Answer: 300 K