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Title: Basic Gas Laws
Author: Ronald R. Walsmith
Source: 1983 Appalachian Gas Measurement Short Course
Year Published: 1983
Abstract: With the risk of over simplification, it should be stated the behavior of gases at relatively low pressures and normal temperatures can be condensed into two ideas: (1) Gas volume increases as temperature increases and gas volume decreases as temperature decreases if we hold an unchanging pressure, (2) Pressure times volume equals a constant number value which does not change at a steady temperature. The volume-temperature relationship was first observed and understood by a French chemist named Jacques Charles In the year 1782. Nearly two centuries later we observe the same volume-temperature relationship when we fill a basketball with air in a warm house and then take it outside on a cool day. The cooler outdoor temperature decreases the volume of air inside the ball. This is the same reason that tennis balls dont have as much bounce on a chilly day as during a hot summer afternoon.

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