pressure of a gas -- quick question.

[realitybugll]

Does the pressure of a gas (assuming temperature is constant) depend on the container's surface area as well as its volume? And if so why isn't this factored into the ideal gas law?

[fss]

No, it does not.

[Drakkith]

Wouldn't the surface area be directly correlated with the volume?

[kcdodd]

The state of the particles is not assumed to be affected by proximity to any surface in the ideal gas law.

[realitybugll]

drakkith - Well sure. But I was thinking of how identical volumes can have different surface areas.

Thanks for the responses. I get it now. Even though more collisions will be happening in a volume with a larger surface area, the collisions per unit of surface area will remain constant (and thus so will pressure). Geometrically it makes sense.