Friday, October 5, 2012

Lesson 10

Boyle's Law

In Boyle's Law the relationship between gas pressure and gas volume are inversely proportional meaning that instead of one increasing, causing the other to increase, when one increases then the other decreases.

inverse proportion - two variables are inversely proportional to each other if one variable increases when the other decreases.

Formula

  • k=PV
  • k is the proportional constant that you find by multiplying the original pressure and volume
  • You then solve either for the new pressure or the new volume by plugging in the k value
  • The term missing from this equation is the temp. Meaning that it is the term that stays the same while pressure and volume change
 

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