2 2010premed Full Member 10+ Year Member Joined Jan 16, 2009 Messages 293 Reaction score 0 Aug 14, 2010 #1 As the pressure increases uniformly, does volume decrease a lot at first and the gradually less? Members don't see this ad.
As the pressure increases uniformly, does volume decrease a lot at first and the gradually less? Members don't see this ad.
R Rabolisk Full Member 10+ Year Member Joined Jun 19, 2010 Messages 847 Reaction score 7 Aug 14, 2010 #2 Any reason you might think that? Upvote 0 Downvote
2 2010premed Full Member 10+ Year Member Joined Jan 16, 2009 Messages 293 Reaction score 0 Aug 14, 2010 #3 remember reading something like that in one of the BR solutions Upvote 0 Downvote
R Rabolisk Full Member 10+ Year Member Joined Jun 19, 2010 Messages 847 Reaction score 7 Aug 14, 2010 #4 Try graphing V on y axis and P on x axis. Upvote 0 Downvote
VicodinMan Full Member 10+ Year Member Joined Aug 8, 2010 Messages 31 Reaction score 0 Aug 15, 2010 #5 Rabolisk said: Try graphing V on y axis and P on x axis. Click to expand... Hint: Use the ideal gas law. PV=nRT. Assume that you hold temperature constant so you can simplify to PV=k. 3 options: 1. Graph it. 2. Figure out which other function in math looks very, very similar to this. 3. Derive it. Upvote 0 Downvote
Rabolisk said: Try graphing V on y axis and P on x axis. Click to expand... Hint: Use the ideal gas law. PV=nRT. Assume that you hold temperature constant so you can simplify to PV=k. 3 options: 1. Graph it. 2. Figure out which other function in math looks very, very similar to this. 3. Derive it.