Charles's Law
• Proposed by Jacques Charles in 1780 and published by Joseph Louis Gay­
Lussac in 1802.
• "The volume of a given mass of an ideal gas is directly proportional to its temperature" ­ Charles's Law
• Charles's Law: V1/T1 = V2/T2 • What does this mean?
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Charles's Law Example Problems
A gas occupies 1.00 L at standard temperature. What is the volume at 333.0 °C?
A gas syringe contains 56.05 milliliters of a gas at 315.1 K. Determine the volume that the gas will occupy if the temperature is increased to 380.5 K
3.50 liters of a gas at 727.0 K will occupy how many liters at 153.0 K?
Charles's Law Questions
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