P vs. V question

[2010premed]

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As the pressure increases uniformly, does volume decrease a lot at first and the gradually less?

 

[Rabolisk]

Any reason you might think that?

 

[2010premed]

remember reading something like that in one of the BR solutions

 

[Rabolisk]

Try graphing V on y axis and P on x axis.

 

[VicodinMan]

Try graphing V on y axis and P on x axis.

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.