Physics A-Level
Gas laws
What Gas laws means in Physics A-Level, as defined for AQA, OCR.
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The equation combines Boyle's law, Charles's law and Avogadro's law, and for a fixed mass of gas pV/T is constant.
Experimental relationships between pressure p, volume V, thermodynamic temperature T and the mass of the gas.
Topics that use Gas laws
- Ideal gases (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
- Ideal gases (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Absolute zero
- Avogadro constant
- Boltzmann constant
- Kelvin scale
- Molar gas constant
- Assumptions of ideal-gas behaviour
- Assumptions of kinetic theory
- Boyle's law
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