Boyle's law
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Boyle's law, or Boyle-Mariotte law is a law about ideal gases. It is named after Robert Boyle and Edme Mariotte, who found it, in the second half of the 17th century. Boyle found out that in a closed system, the absolute pressure and volume of a gas are inversely proportional, if the temperature is kept constant.[1][2] The law was named after chemist and physicist Robert Boyle, who published the original law in 1662.[3] The law itself can be stated as follows:
For a fixed amount of an ideal gas kept at a fixed temperature, P [pressure] and V [volume] are inversely proportional (while one doubles, the other halves).—[2]
References [change]
- ↑ Levine, Ira. N 1978. Physical Chemistry. McGraw-Hill
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Levine, Ira. N. 1978. p12 gives the original definition.
- ↑ J Appl Physiol 98: 31-39, 2005. Free download at Jap.physiology.org
