Boyle's Law
Level
1
When the pressure on a gas increases, will the volume increase or decrease?
Assume that temperature remains constant.
unchange
increase
decrease
no idea about this
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1 solution
Using Boyle's law, P1V1=P2V2, you can see that pressure and volume must be inversely proportional to each other, so when the pressure increases, the volume must decrease.