State of matter - Vander Waals equation

The pressure exerted by the gas is lower than the pressure exerted by the ideal gas. pideal= preal + an 2 /V2.

The volume occupied by the molecules also becomes significant because instead of moving in volume V, these are now restricted to volume (V–nb) where nb is approximately the total

volume occupied by the molecules themselves

Vander waals equation   is 

‘a’ is measure of magnitude of intermolecular attractive forces within the gas and is independent of temperature and pressure.

At very low temperature, intermolecular forces become significant.

Real gases show ideal behaviour when conditions of temperature and pressure are such that the intermolecular forces are practically negligible. The real gases show ideal behaviour when pressure approaches zero.

Compressibility factor Z, which is the ratio of product pV and nRT. Mathematically Z= pV/ n T R

For ideal gas Z = 1 at all temperatures and pressures because pV = n RT