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- Boyle’s Law
- Experimental Verification of Boyle’s Law
- Calculations Using Boyle’s Law
Boyle’s law states that “the pressure of a fixed mass of a gas is inversely proportional to its volume provided that the temperature is kept constant.
\( \scriptsize P \propto \normalsize \frac{1}{V} \scriptsize \: or \: PV = Constant \: (k)\)
Any change in the volume occupied by a gas (at constant quantity and temperature) will result in a change in its pressure. In other words, the product of the initial pressure and the initial volume of a gas is equal to the product of its final pressure and final volume (at constant temperature). This law can be expressed mathematically as follows:
P1V1 = P2V2
This expression can be obtained from the pressure-volume relationship suggested by Boyle’s law. For a fixed amount of gas kept at a constant temperature, PV = k. Therefore,
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