BOYLE’S LAW

Kristine Lorainne C. Delamide

Mia Victoria Alexandra L. Nueva
10 - Zeus
 BOYLE’S LAW
“Volume of a given mass of gas held
at constant temperature is inversely
proportional to its pressure”
 On a practical level,
 

if we reduce the
LOW VOLUME
HIGH PRESSURE

volume of the
container by half, it’s
pressure doubles; if
HIGH VOLUME reduced to of the
former volume, it’s
LOW PRESSURE

pressure is increased
by ten times.
FORMULA

PV = k
WHERE P IS INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL TO V
FORMULA
P1V1 = P2V2

A N O T H E R
or

 
ROBERT BOYLE
 How Did Boyle Come
up With His Law?
Using a vacuum pump invented by Otto von
Guericke in 1654, Boyle carried out experiments
investigating the properties of air and the
vacuum.
During his experiments, he stumbled upon
the greatest achievement of his life. By using a J-
shaped glass tube that had air at the tip of the
curve, Boyle altered the weight of the air using
mercury and, as he did so, he saw that the space
of air at the tip of the curve became smaller. He
discovered that when you increase pressure on a
gas, the gas's volume predictably shrinks.
 Real - world
Application of
Boyle’s Law
• A flat tire
• Breathing
• Spray paint
• Syringe
• Soda Can
• The Bends
 A Flat Tire

As you put more and more air into the

tire, you are forcing all the gas molecules
to get packed together, reducing their
volume and increasing the pressure
pushing on the walls of the tire. As long as
the air temperature remains the same, you
are experiencing a real life example of this
law.
 Breathing
When a person breathes in, their lung
volume increases and the pressure within
decreases. Since air always moves from
areas of high pressure to areas of low
pressure, air is drawn into the lungs.
The opposite happens when a person
exhales. Since the lung volume decreases,
the pressure within increases, forcing the
air out of the lungs to the lower pressure
air outside of the body
 Spray Paint
Before you spray a can of paint, you are
supposed to shake it up for a while as a ball
bearing rattles around inside. There are two
substances inside the can: one is your product
(paint for example), and the other is a gas that
can be pressurized so much that it retains a liquid
state, even when it is heated past its boiling point.
The moment the nozzle of a spray paint can
goes down, the seal is broken and the propellant
instantly boils, expands into a gas, and pushes
down on the paint. Under the high pressure, the
paint is forced out of the nozzle as it attempts to
reach an area with lower pressure.
 Syringe
This mechanism is far more simple
than a can of spray paint. Syringes of all
types utilize Boyle's law on a very basic
level.
When you pull the plunger out on a
syringe, it causes the volume within the
chamber to increase. As we know, this
causes the pressure to do the opposite,
which then creates a vacuum. When a
syringe is empty, the vacuum within the
chamber sucks fluid in through the needle.
 Soda Can
When a soda bottle is filled, it is also
pressurized. Much like the aerosol can mentioned
earlier, when you slowly open the cap, the gas is
able to increase its volume and the pressure
decreases.
Normally you can let the gas out of a can or
bottle release cleanly, but if the bottle is shaken
up and the gas is mixed into the liquid, then you
may have a mess on your hands. This is because
the gas trying to escape is mixed into the fluid, so,
when it does escape, it brings the foamy fluid out
with it. Pressure in the bottle goes down, volume
of the gas goes up, and you have yourself a mess
to clean up.
 The Bends
With the increasing pressure causing a decrease in
volume, nitrogen gasses begin to be absorbed by the
diver's blood.
When the diver begins his ascent and the pressure is
lessened, these gas molecules begin to expand back to
their normal volume. With a slow ascent, or through the
use of a depressurization chamber, those gasses can
work their way back out of the bloodstream slowly and
normally. But if the diver ascends too quickly, the blood
in their veins becomes a foamy mess. The same thing that
happens to a foamy soda is what happens to a diver's
bloodstream during the bends. On top of that, any built
up nitrogen between the diver's joints will also expand,
causing the diver to bend over (hence its name) in severe
pain. In the worst cases, this sudden depressurization of
the body can kill a person instantly.
 SAMPLE
PROBLEMS
1. A balloon with a volume of 2.0 L is filled
with a gas at 3 atmospheres. If the
pressure is reduced to 0.5 atmospheres
without a change in temperature, what
would be the volume of the balloon?
 Solution
P1V1 = P2V2
 
where
P1 = initial pressure
V1 = initial volume
P2 = final pressure
V2 = final volume = 12L
GIVEN:
P1 = 3 atm
V1 = 2.0 L
P2 = 0.5 L
V2 = ?
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