BerkowitzTuohey+Boyle's+Law

Home

=__BOYLE'S LAW__=

Robert Boyle was the physicist and chemist who established Boyle's Law in 1662. Boyle's Law is the statement that the volume of a gas increases when the pressure of a gas decreases while at a constant temperature.

The equation for Boyle's Law shows how pressure and volume are directly related to each other and therefore can solve one each others equations:
 * P1V1=P2V2**


 * P1**=pressure (1st measurement)
 * V1**volume (1st measurement)
 * P2**=pressure (2nd measurement)
 * V2**= volume (2nd measurement)

__Sample Problem:__ You have a 100 mL object under 2 atm of pressure, and you have another object under 4 atm of pressure, but the volume is unknown. SOLVE FOR V2. P1: 2 atm V1: 100 mL P2: 4 atm V2: ?

2 atm x 100 mL = 4 atm x V2 200 = 4V2 __50 mL=V2__