An apparatus is available to show on the overhead projector the relationship of pressure and volume. A plot of V vs. 1/P gives a straight line with a slope of k. Take a series of measurements at ...

Although the Anglo-Irish scientist is best known for Boyle’s Law of gases, his first contribution to Philosophical Transactions was actually Oldenburg’s summary of Boyle’s second-hand account of a ...

Boyle, R., New Experiments Physico-Mechanical Touching the Air, sec. ed. (Oxford, 1662). Croone, W., Letter to H. Power, September 14, 1661. Brit. Mus. Sloane MSS ...

Boyle’s Law states that for a gas at a constant temperature, pressure × volume is also constant. So, increasing pressure means that volume will decrease providing that the temperature remains ...