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To: lepton

Gay-Lussac’s law, or the pressure law, was found by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac in 1809. It states that, for a given mass and constant volume of an ideal gas, the pressure exerted on the sides of its container is proportional to its temperature.

As a mathematical equation, Gay-Lussac’s law is written as either:

P/T=k3

P1/T1=P2/T2

where P is the pressure (Pa), T is the temperature (measured in Kelvin), and k3 (is the constant from this equation—it is not the same as the constants from the other equations above.


157 posted on 01/23/2015 6:20:28 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger

I used the second form, as there aren’t reliable figures for how the ball may stretch when wet. For that form, with a unchanging number of moles of the gas, there is no need for a constant.


158 posted on 01/23/2015 7:01:52 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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