Virial coefficients of model systems

The virial equation of state is used to describe the behavior of diluted gases. It is usually written as an expansion of the compresiblity factor, $Z$, in terms of either the density or the pressure. In the first case:

${\frac {pV}{Nk_{B}T}}=Z=1+\sum _{k=2}^{\infty }B_{k}(T)\rho ^{k-1}.$

where

• $p$ is the pressure

• Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle V } is the volume

• Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle N } is the number of molecules

• Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \rho \equiv \frac{N}{V} } is the (number) density

• Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle B_k } is called the k-th virial coefficient