The combined gas law is a gas law which combines Charles's law, Boyle's law,and Gay-Lussac's law. There is no official founder for this law, it is merely an amalgamation of the three previously discovered laws. These laws each relate one thermodynamic variable to another mathematically while holding everything else constant. Charles's law states that volume and temperature are directly proportional to each other as long as pressure is held constant. Boyle's law asserts that pressure and volume are inversely proportional to each other at fixed temperature. Finally, Gay-Lussac's law introduces a direct proportionality between temperature and pressure as long as it is at a constant volume. The inter-dependence of these variables is shown in the combined gas law, which clearly states that:
| “ | The ratio between the pressure-volume product and the temperature of a system remains constant. | ” |
This can be stated mathematically as
where:
- p is the pressure
- V is the volume
- T is the temperature measured in kelvins
- k is a constant (with units of energy divided by temperature).
For comparing the same substance under two different sets of conditions, the law can be written as:
The addition of Avogadro's law to the combined gas law yields the ideal gas law.
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