1. DO NOW: On the back of your worksheet! Fill in your table of contents!
1) If I have 5.6 liters of gas in a piston at a pressure of 1.5 atm and compress the gas until its volume is 4.8 L, what will the new pressure inside the piston be?
2) I have added 15 L of air to a balloon at sea level (1.0 atm). If I take the balloon with me to Denver, where the air pressure is 0.85 atm, what will the new volume of the balloon be?

2. After today you will be able to…
Explain the effect on gas properties using Charles’s law
Calculate an unknown temperature, or volume by solving algebraically

3. Charles’s Law: Temperature and Volume
Jacques Charles studied the effect of temperature on volume of a gas at constant pressure.
In 1787 Charles proposed a law to describe his observations.

4. “For a given mass of a gas, at constant pressure, the volume of the gas is directly proportional to its temperature in Kelvin.”

5. Charles’s Law: Temperature and Volume
We can simplify this relationship by the formula: Where, V1, V2 = volume in any unit (L or mL), BUT they must match! T1, T2 = temperature is always in Kelvin! (Recall, just add °C)
V1 V2
T1 T2 =

6. Charles’s Law: Example
A gas has a volume of 4.0L at 27°C. What is its volume at 153°C?
V1=
T1=
V2=
T2=
V1 V2
T1 T2
4.0L =
27°C +273= 300K ?
153°C+273= 426K
(4.0L)
(V2) =
(300K)
(426K) V2 =
5.7L

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