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How are pressure and volume related?
BOYLE'S LAW is an experimental gas law that describes how the pressure of a gas tends to increase as the volume of the container decreases.It means when pressure is increases then volume is decreases,and when pressure is decreases volume is increases.
A modern statement of boyle's is the absolute pressure exerted by a given mass of an ideal gas is inversely proportional to the volume it occupies if the tempertaure and amount of a gas remain unchanged in a closed system.
Mathematically boyle's law stated as P 1/V
Pressure is directly proportional to the reciprocal of volume.
or
PV=k, pressure multipied by volume equals some constant k
Where P is the pressure of the gas,V is the volume of the gas and k is constant
This equation states that product of a pressure and volume is constant for a given mass of a confined gas and the temperature is constant.this law can usefully expressed as
P1V1=P2V2
This equation shows that as volume increases,the pressure of a gas decreases in proportion similarly as volume decreases,the pressure of the gas increases