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| '''Boyle's law''' states that | | '''Boyle's law''' ([[Robert Boyle]]) states that |
| :<math>PV\vert_T=k</math> | | :<math>PV\vert_T=k</math> |
| where <math>P</math> is the [[pressure]], <math>V</math> is the volume and <math>k</math> is a constant. | | where <math>P</math> is the pressure, <math>V</math> is the volume and <math>k</math> is a constant. |
| This holds true for an [[ideal gas]].
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| ==History==
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| Boyle's law is attributed to both [[Robert Boyle]] and to Edme Mariotte. However, it seems that it was originally
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| proposed by Henry Power in 1661 <ref>Henry Power "Experimental philosophy, in three books : containing new experiments microscopical, mercurial, magnetical : with some deductions, and probable hypotheses, raised from them, in avouchment and illustration of the now famous atomical hypothesis." Printed by T. Roycroft, for John Martin and James Allestry (1664)</ref>.
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| ==See also==
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| *[[Charles's law]]
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| *[[Gay-Lussac's law]]
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| *[[Equation of State: Ideal Gas | Ideal gas law]]
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| ==References==
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| <references/>
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| [[category: classical thermodynamics]] | | [[category: classical thermodynamics]] |