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Al- mustaqbal University College

Anesthesia Techniques Department


First stage /medical physics
Third lecture by Asst. Lecturer Fatema Sattar

Lecture 4:

Boyle’s Law

Purpose of the experiment


To verify Boyle's law and the relation between volume and pressure.

Apparatus
Air column with measuring scale, pressure gauge, oil reservoir, hand air pump.

1
Theory
Boyle's law is a famous gas law studied in physics and chemistry. It relates pressure
and volume of gas keeping other parameters (amount of gas and temperature)
constant. To verify the law by studying the relation between pressure and volume.
Gaseous state is a state of matter in which the substance does not have any specific
shape or volume. It adopts the form and size of its container. The fundamental
macroscopic properties of gases are pressure, volume, temperature and mass of the
gas. These can be explained by kinetic theory by considering their molecular
composition and motion. Scientific observation has determined that these variables
are related to one another, and the values of these properties determine the state of
the gas.
These relationships among pressure, temperature and volume of a gas lead to Gas
laws. Boyle's Law tells us that the volume of gas increases as the pressure decreases.
Charles' Law tells us that the volume of gas increases as the temperature increases
and Avogadro's Law tells us that the volume of gas increases as the amount of gas
increases. The ideal gas law is the combination of the three simple gas laws.
According to Boyle’s Law, the pressure (P) of a given mass of gas is inversely
proportional to its volume (V), provided that the temperature of the gas remains
constant. For an enclosed gas, at constant temperature (T):

1
Pα
𝑉
Or
P*V = constant
P1V1=P2V2

2
Procedure
1. Connect the apparatus as shown in the down diagram.
2. The hand air pump is attached to the oil reservoir.
3. Now open the air tap and start pumping air through the air pump.
4. Keep pumping the air until the oil is reached in the upper part of the column.
This can be observed in the pressure gauge.
5. Close the air tap once the oil no longer rises and the pressure gauge reading is
constant (i.e. reached its peak).
6. Now record both pressure and volume readings.
7. Now we reduce the pressure value by the pressure gauge and record the resulting
volume reading by measuring scale.
8. We continue the process of reducing pressure and measuring the volume
corresponding to this pressure for several readings until we obtain several values of
pressure and volume, and we note the inverse relationship between them, as in the
table below.
9. Finally, conclude the experiment based on the graphs.

3
Pressure reading (kPa) Volume reading (cm3
or ml)
650 25
450 33
290 48
230 57
195 64
160 72
110 89

Result

The graph of pressure vs volume and pressure vs inverse volume are plotted.

Pressure vs volume
700

600

500
Pressure

400

300

200

100

0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Volume

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