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Chapter 5: Q5.16P (page 228)

A student states Boyle’s law as follows: “The volume of a gas is inversely proportional to its pressure.” How is this statement incomplete? Give a correct statement of Boyle’s law.

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The correct statement of Boyle’s law is, “At constant temperature, the volume of the gas is inversely proportional to its pressure.

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Statement by the student

The student states Boyle’s law as,

“The volume of a gas is inversely proportional to its pressure.”

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Correct statement of Boyle’s law

According to Boyle’s law, the volume of the gas changes according to its pressure at constant temperature.

It means that pressure and volume of the gas are inversely proportional to each other at constant temperature.

Thus, the correct statement is,

At constant temperature, the volume of the gas is inversely proportional to its pressure.

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What is the effect of the following on the volume of 1 mol of an ideal gas?

(a) The pressure is tripled (at constantT).

(b) The absolute temperature is increased by a factor of 3.0 (at constantP).

(c) Three more moles of the gas are added (at constant P and T).

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(a) The pressure is reduced by a factor of 4 (at constantT).

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(a)Tdoubles at fixedP.

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