Up, Up, and Away
The popularity of hot air balloons got scientists thinking about
gases and what happens to them when they heat up. In the early
1800s, two French scientists — Jacques Charles and Joseph GayLussac—decided to investigate how changes in the temperature of
a gas affect the amount of space it takes up, or its volume. They
heated air and measured how its volume changed. The two
scientists already knew that the pressure of a gas affects its volume.
This had been demonstrated back in the 1660s by the English
scientist Robert Boyle. So Charles and Gay-Lussac controlled the
effects of pressure by keeping it constant in their experiments.
Based on the results of the research, Charles developed a
scientific law about gases. It is one of three well-known gas laws,
the others being Boyle’s law and Gay Lussac’s law. According to
Charles’s law, when the pressure of a gas is held constant,
increasing its temperature increases its volume. The opposite is also
true: decreasing the temperature of a gas decreases its volume.
Up, Up, and Away
The popularity of hot air balloons got scientists thinking about
gases and what happens to them when they heat up. In the early
1800s, two French scientists — Jacques Charles and Joseph GayLussac—decided to investigate how changes in the temperature of
a gas affect the amount of space it takes up, or its volume. They
heated air and measured how its volume changed. The two
scientists already knew that the pressure of a gas affects its volume.
This had been demonstrated back in the 1660s by the English
scientist Robert Boyle. So Charles and Gay-Lussac controlled the
effects of pressure by keeping it constant in their experiments.
Based on the results of the research, Charles developed a
scientific law about gases. It is one of three well-known gas laws,
the others being Boyle’s law and Gay Lussac’s law. According to
Charles’s law, when the pressure of a gas is held constant,
increasing its temperature increases its volume. The opposite is also
true: decreasing the temperature of a gas decreases its volume.
Up, Up, and Away
The popularity of hot air balloons got scientists thinking about
gases and what happens to them when they heat up. In the early
1800s, two French scientists — Jacques Charles and Joseph GayLussac—decided to investigate how changes in the temperature of
a gas affect the amount of space it takes up, or its volume. They
heated air and measured how its volume changed. The two
scientists already knew that the pressure of a gas affects its volume.
This had been demonstrated back in the 1660s by the English
scientist Robert Boyle. So Charles and Gay-Lussac controlled the
effects of pressure by keeping it constant in their experiments.
Based on the results of the research, Charles developed a
scientific law about gases. It is one of three well-known gas laws,
the others being Boyle’s law and Gay Lussac’s law. According to
Charles’s law, when the pressure of a gas is held constant,
increasing its temperature increases its volume. The opposite is also
true: decreasing the temperature of a gas decreases its volume.
Up, Up, and Away
The popularity of hot air balloons got scientists thinking about
gases and what happens to them when they heat up. In the early
1800s, two French scientists — Jacques Charles and Joseph GayLussac—decided to investigate how changes in the temperature of
a gas affect the amount of space it takes up, or its volume. They
heated air and measured how its volume changed. The two
scientists already knew that the pressure of a gas affects its volume.
This had been demonstrated back in the 1660s by the English
scientist Robert Boyle. So Charles and Gay-Lussac controlled the
effects of pressure by keeping it constant in their experiments.
Based on the results of the research, Charles developed a
scientific law about gases. It is one of three well-known gas laws,
the others being Boyle’s law and Gay Lussac’s law. According to
Charles’s law, when the pressure of a gas is held constant,
increasing its temperature increases its volume. The opposite is also
true: decreasing the temperature of a gas decreases its volume.