Boyles+Law

Robert Boyle was an english chemist and physicist who was the first scientist to make measurement which showed the quantitive relationship between the pressure and volume of gases. he deiscovered when when double the pressure of a gas your reduce the volume by a half.

Boyles law says that the volume of a fixed mass of gas varies inversely with the pressure at constant temperature. P1V1=P2V2


 * PROBLEM:** Sulfur dioxide(SO2), a gas that plays a central role in the formation of acid rain, found in the exhaust of automobiles and power plants. Consider a 1.53L sample of gaseous SO2 at a pressure of 5.6 x 10^3 Pa. If the pressure is changed to 1.5 x 10^4 Pa at a constant temp., what will the new volume of the gas be?

P1=5.6 x 10^3 P2=1.5 x 10^4 Pa V1=1.53 L V2=??????????

V2=P1V1/P2=5.6 x 10^3Pa x1.53 L / 1.5 x 10^4 Pa= .57 L

V2=.57L