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Boyle was born in 1627 and died in 91 at the reasonable age of 64. He was the son of a rich entrepreuner. He went to Eton college and studied Gallileo while he was still alive. His contribution to the field of chemistry was significant. We derive the ideal gas law based on his law. Indeed he created one of the more useful laws in chemistry. He believed that "for a fixed amount of gas kept at a fixed temperature, //P// and //V// are inversely proportional (while one increases, the other decreases).[|"-wikipedia]

what this means is that PV=K.

Pressure time volume equals the pressure/volume constant of the gas. from this law we can extrapolate that P1 V1= P2 V2. this means that if a gas undergoes a change in pressure, as pressure increases, volume decreases. P1=1 V1=1

P2=2

P1 V1= P2 V2

1*1=2*V2 1=2*V2 1/2=V2 V2=1/2

as pressure increases, volume decreases. Back