Boyles Law

“Boyle's law gives the relationship between pressure and volume of a gas. At consistent temperature, Pressure varies inversely with volume.” (Marieb & Hoehn, 2013, p. 817-819)

Scuba diving is a method of underwater diving in which a diver utilises a Self-Contained Underwater Breathing apparatus (Scuba) to breathe under water. There are three main gas laws that are pertinent to scuba diving. These are Boyle’s Law, Dalton’s Law and Henry’s Law. Throughout this presentation we will examine how gas laws relate to the diving industry and how innovative technology could transform the future of diving.

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Hydrogen gas are collected by the displacement of water in an inverted gas measuring tube ( eudiometer tube ). Also, by using the ideal gas law ( PV= nRT) and the combined gas law(P1V1/T1=P2V2/T2), the total pressure in the tube can be calculated. The total pressure of the gas would equal to the barometric (air) pressure. However, the gas in the cylinder will not be pure hydrogen gas but will also contain water vapour that is evaporated. According to Dalton's law, the total pressure of the gas will be equal to the partial pressure of hydrogen plus the partial pressure of water vapour.

For air to be drawn into the human’s lungs, the volume of chest or the thoracic cavity must increase. This process happens due to the intercostal muscles as well as the diaphragm contracting. At this stage the humans rib cage will gradually move up and out while the diaphragm begins to flatten itself allowing the increase of the space. Once this has occurred, the decrease of the air pressure in the human’s lungs further cause the air to blitz in from the outside. The thoracic dimensions expand enough to increase the thoracic volume by 500ml. The diaphragm is crucial in the production of volume changes that will end up in a quite inspiration. Once inspiration has come to an end the thorax as well as the alveoli stop expanding. The air flow which goes into the lungs will cause the alveolar pressure to be equal in comparison to the barometric air pressure. Due to the equality of both pressures movement of the air will not occur. Boyles law is a gas law that is the fixed amount of gas which is at a set temperature, the pressure as well as the volume are at an inversely proportional state. This causes the pressure as well as the volume of a specific gas to have an inverse relationship causing the temperature to be held persistent. The Boyles law Is very important due to its function to keep the sequence of changes in pressure and volume (Marieb ; Hoehn;,

According to Boyle’s Law, at a constant temperature, pressure of a gas is inversely proportional to volume. Therefore, when we breathe in, the chest cavity expands, and the pressure inside the lungs becomes slightly lower than the atmospheric pressure.

The pressure v. volume graph has an indirect relationship. Which is shown as the volume increases the pressure decreases. An example of this is when the volume is 27.1L the pressure is 2.24atm, and when the volume is 63.8L the pressure is 1.01atm. Thus, showing an indirect relationship between pressure and volume; furthermore, making it Boyle’s Law.

These areas also included medicine, hydrostatics, and earth science. In 1654, the vacuum pump was invented by Otto von Guericke. During this time, Boyle had met a highly intelligent student at Oxford named Robert Hooke. Together they took the concept of the vacuum pump and devised the famous piece of experimental equipment called the vacuum chamber. Their first great discovery while experimenting with air is now called Boyle’s Law. Boyle’s Law states that if the volume of a gas is decreased, the pressure will increase proportionally. They used a glass tube placing mercury inside to vary the pressure. The air was a fixed weight. He learned that when you increase the pressure on a gas, the volume would shrink. This gas law was the first to be discovered and it took over a hundred years before another one was discovered. With the vacuum chamber, Boyle also figured out that the sound cannot travel through a vacuum. He used a glass jar and a bell for this experiment. He would ring the bell inside the jar using a magnet outside the jar. When he pumped the air out of the jar, the ability to hear the sound of the bell was less and less. At this point, the full implication of the magnetic forces was not realized but it was a very important moment for science. He published his findings in 1660 in a book titled, New Experiments Physico-Mechancall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and its Effects. In the book the first controlled experiments were described as well as what happens to reducing the pressure of the air. This book was the result of over three years of experimenting with the air

Which stated that the best explanation of Gay-Lussac’s observations on gas reactions was that gases with the same volume at the same temperature and pressure contain an equal number of molecules. He published this paper in the Journal de Physique, a journal in Italy, in 1811. He published it when he was a physicist at the college of Vercelli.

The ideal gas law is expressed by the equation, PV=nRT. P refers to the pressure while V,n,R and T represent the volume, number of moles, the gas constant and the temperature, respectively. The ideal gas law describes the relationships between the properties mentioned above. Although this equation is widely used, it is limited in the sense that gases only behave “ideally” under very few circumstances. The moles of a substance are used here in addition to the volume.

Where Boyle's law states that pressure is inversely proportional to volume under a constant temperature and a fixed amount of gas; where Charles' law states the volume and absolute pressure are proportional under a constant pressure, and Avogadro's law which states that volume is proportional to the amount of gas present under constant temperature conditions (LeTran, 2013). The Ideal Gas Law can be written in a few ways, however, the way it will be analyzed under the scenario explained in this paper can be seen in equation 1. In this equation P represent the pressure of the gas, V represents the volume of the gas, n represents the amount of gas in moles, R is the ideal gas constant and T is the absolute temperature of the gas ("Ideal Gas Law," 2018). All of the terms are pretty self-explanatory except for the gas constant and the absolute temperature of the gas. The ideal gas constant is the amount of energy per mole of the gas, which is equivalent to Boltzmann's constant, however it is expressed per particle (Gas Constant," 2017). R is the same value whenever evaluating an Ideal Gas Law equation, however it varies based on the units of measure used. The absolute temperature is the average kinetic energy that makes up an object. Therefore, an object cannot have negative energy and the absolute temperature can never be less than zero. This is why temperature is

All things begin somewhere, including States of Matter. God created these substances and had people discover them. The process of one of the States of Matter, Gas, was discovered by an Irish natural philosopher named Robert Boyle. He had many other accomplishments, including advocating for the scientific method. During his time on earth, he wrote a fairly popular book and had an interest in alchemy, the study of turning metals into gold. Boyle was a curious person and wasn’t going to settle for an answer that isn’t true or testable, so he decided to do his own experiments to prove his correctness. Boyle is best known for creating “Boyle’s Law” which according to brainpop.com is, “… an observation on the properties of gases that he published in 1662.” After experimenting one day, “Boyle realized that at a constant temperature, the product of a gas’s pressure and volume will always be constant.” This development can be expressed in an equation: P1 x V1 = P2 x V2. P1 and V1 exemplify the pressure and volume before being change and P1 and V2 exemplify the pressure and volume after change. Boyle has contributed to the States of Matter quite a bit.

Oppositely, if the gas decreases in size the molecules will subside and the pressure will drop. (Hess, 2016) In order to understand this mathematically, and get the approximate value, p (pressure) and v (volume) = the k (constant) this is shown as PV=k and if comparing the same matter with different conditions the equation is demonstrated as P1V1=P2V2. (Hess, 2016) This will give you an approximation in numbers, if the volume, and or pressure, has either increased or decreased. Knowing this has contributed to the understanding of how much oxygen to give and how the body reacts while scuba diving

One of the most important things about gases is that, despite wide differences in chemical properties, all the gases more or less obey the gas laws. The gas laws deal with how gases behave with respect to pressure, temperature, volume and amount. This uniformity of physical behavior was of great interest with early scientists. It is one of the dogmas of scientists that the behavior of a material is a reflection of the particles that make up the substance. In other words, differences between solids, liquids and gases reflect the movement of the small particles that compose all matter. This assumption is part of the Kinetic Theory Of Gases (Kinetic is from the Greek word for motion). Historically, the description of the gas properties has been summarized by the mathematical equations describing the relationships between the gas volume, pressure and temperature. These equations, named after the scientist who first demonstrated their validity, have been labeled the gas laws. These gas laws are best understood within the framework described as the kinetic theory of gases:

In other lessons, we learned about different gas laws: Boyle’s Law, Charles’ Law and Gay-Lussac’s Law. What happens if we combine all these laws together? We come up with a whole new gas law: The Combined Gas Law. This will be our lesson’s focus.