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To: Colofornian

amazing how few people understand boyle’s law ... supposedly taught in high school chemisty


68 posted on 01/23/2015 3:06:36 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: sten

You must have missed HS chemistry too. Boyle’s Law relates Volume and Pressure, not Temperature.

You want Guy Lussac’s Law.

P1/T1 = P2/T2
P1*T2/T1 = P2

filled to minimum pressure at 70 degrees F, how much pressure loss do you get going down to 45 degrees? Remember that the formula is in Kelvin, not Fahrenheit

P2 = 12.5 * 280 / 295 = 11.9 psi.

Therefore, Brady, the Pats and the democrats on this forum who love them are being willfully ignorant on the issue that the temperature would have caused a 2 psi drop in the balls. It would not have. They cheated before the balls hit the field.


132 posted on 01/23/2015 4:19:39 PM PST by Diplomat
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