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Posted: **Sat Jan 21, 2017 4:28 pm**

This relates to midterm 2013 question 4 part A in back of course reader

Why is it that when volume and pressure are both changing that work can equal:

w=-nRTln(V2/V1) or w=-nRTln (P1/P2)

Is it because the pressure is inversely related to the volume?

Posted: **Sat Jan 21, 2017 10:23 pm**

Yes, that reasoning makes sense.

Posted: **Sun Jan 22, 2017 9:35 pm**

Yes, Boyle's law states that at a constant temperature, the volume of a fixed amount of gas is inversely proportional to the pressure. In other words, V∝1/P.

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Work Equation, changing V and P

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