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The gas laws

Three people made physical observations and they created:

Boyle's law (pronounced Boils law)

Charles' law (pronounced as in Prince Charles)

Gay-Lussac's law (pronounced gay-loo-sack)

 

In order to understand these three laws you have to remember the combined version of them, called the Combined Gas Law. 

 

Combined Gas Law

You must remember:

 

 P1  V1T1=P2  V2T2

Use the folllowing mnemonic to remember these:

Potato and Vegetable on top of Table

Potato and vegetable on top of a table mnemonic to help remember gas laws in physics

Potato and Vegetable on top of Table

translates to

P  VT

or

 P1  V1T1=P2  V2T2