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Old 07-08-2011, 03:41 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by CapriRacer View Post
Boyle? Wasn't he that guy who played Frakensteen? I didn't vote for him, so why is he making laws?
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Boyle's law (sometimes referred to as the Boyle-Mariotte law) is one of many gas laws and a special case of the ideal gas law. Boyle's law describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas, if the temperature is kept constant within a closed system.[1][2] The law was named after chemist and physicist Robert Boyle, who published the original law in 1662.[3] The law itself can be stated as follows:

For a fixed amount of an ideal gas kept at a fixed temperature, P [pressure] and V [volume] are inversely proportional (while one doubles, the other halves).
I guess in this case, the temperature varies with a more-or-less fixed volume, so the pressure is proportional to temperature.
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