The Ideal Gas Law is given by PV = nRT , where P is pressure, V is volume in liters, T is temperature is Kelvin-degrees, n is the number of moles of the gas (a fixed number of particles) and R is constant. When mass and temperature are held constant, what is the relation between volume and pressure?

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The Ideal Gas Law is given  by PV = nRT , where P is pressure, V is volume in liters, T is temperature is Kelvin-degrees, n is the number of moles of the gas (a fixed number of particles) and R is constant. When mass and temperature are held constant, what is the relation between volume and pressure?

anonymous · Answer

if the other things are constant then think of the equation as $PV=k$ where $k>0$.  then if $p\uparrow$, $v\downarrow$ proportionally so that k stays the same.

anonymous · Answer

make sense?