CHM 1311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gas Laws, Tsar

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Gasses surrounds us and are a vital part of our existence, yet we tend to forget bout them while going about our daily life"s. gasses like all fluids and matter are influenced by the same laws of nature. Pressure, volume and temperature all have major affects on gasses and these affects can be categorized into laws, two important ones being charles law and boyle"s law. Charles law states that temperature and volume of a gas is connected, charles law shows how gasses can expand when heat is applied and condense when heat is removed. Boyle"s law is the law which looks at pressure of a gas verses the volume of set gas. Boyles law states that as volume decreases, pressure increases and vice versa. When at a constant temperature the pressure multiplied by the volume of a gas will give you a constant and this can be used to find other pressures at different volumes.