Charles Law

Jacques Charles

• Born: In Beaugency-Sur-Loire
• Knew almost nothing about mathematics
• Launched fhw worlds first (unmanned) hydrogen balloon

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• First person to fill a balloon with hydrogen gas
• Died in paris
• Came up with the Charles Law

First discovered in 1787

Examples

• A football inflated inside and then taken in the cold makes it shrink slightly.
• A slightly underinflated rubber life raft left in bright sunlight swells up.
• The plunger on a turkey syringe thermometer pops out when the turkey is done

Variables: Volume (V) & Temperature (K)

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Sources

• http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Charles