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Old 12-23-2005, 03:30 PM  
Fred Quimby
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Suppose we double the temperature at fixed volume. The pressure doubles. Then suppose we let the volume change to recover that original pressure (while retaining the doubled temperature). Since that requires the pressure to now decrease be the factor of 2, the volume must (by Boyle's Law) increase by that same factor of 2

So pressure increases DIRECTLY with temperature (in a fixed volume). Or P=(constant)*T.
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