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Gay-Lussac's law

What is G-Lusac's law? Well lets see, it explains the relationship between Pressure and temperature, where as the temperature increases so does the volume. Meaning the less pressure the more volume and the more temperature. Why does this occur? Well since less pressure is applied, then there is more space for the following gas to expand, but it won't expand on it's own, it will expand by the amount of temperature that is raised. If this was plotted on a following graph the, slope would be positive.

Using this following equation to find out certain pressures and temperatures: P/T=k P=pressure T= temp k= constant P1/T1=P2/T2 for example: P1=760 mm Hg T1= 100 degrees P2= 700mm Hg T2=? Having 7.6= 700/? ?= 92.1 degrees back to main page