Gas Laws
Gas Laws
Gas Laws
CHARLE’S LAW
AVOGADRO’S LAW
Jacques Charles in 1787 analyzed the effect
of temperature on the volume of a gaseous Amedeo Avogadro in 1811 combined the
substance at a constant pressure. He did this conclusions of Dalton’s Atomic Theory and
analysis to understand the technology Gay Lussac’s Law to give another important
behind the hot air balloon flight. According Gas law called the Avogadro’s Law.
to his findings, at constant pressure and for According to Avogadro’s law, at constant
constant mass, the volume of a gas is temperature and pressure, the volume of all
directly proportional to the temperature. gases constitutes an equal number of
This means that with the increase in molecules. In other words, this implies that
temperature the volume shall increase while in unchanged conditions of temperature and
with decreasing temperature the volume pressure the volume of any gas is directly
decreases. In his experiment, he calculated proportional to the number of molecules of
that the increase in volume with every that gas.
degree equals 1/273.15 times of the original
volume. Therefore, if the volume is V0 at 0°
C and Vt is the volume at t° C then,
IDEAL GAS LAW COMBINED GAS LAW
An ideal gas is defined as one in which all To this point, we have examined the
collisions between atoms or molecules are relationships between any two of the
perfectly eleastic and in which there are no variables, while the third variable is held
intermolecular attractive forces. One can constant. However, situations do arise where
visualize it as a collection of perfectly hard all three variables change. The combined
spheres which collide but which otherwise gas law expresses the relationship between
do not interact with each other. In such a the pressure, volume, and absolute
gas, all the internal energy is in the form of temperature of a fixed amount of gas. For a
kinetic energy and any change in internal combined gas law problem, only the amount
energy is accompanied by a change in of gas is held constant.
temperature. An ideal gas can be
characterized by three state variables:
absolute pressure (P), volume (V), and
absolute temperature (T). The relationship
between them may be deduced from kinetic
theory and is called the