GAS LAW PROBLEMS

Identify your givens and your unknown. You will need this information to determine what gas law to use.

IF YOUR GIVEN VARIABLES ARE:

• Volume & Pressure: Boyle
• Volume & Temp.: Charles
• Temp. & Pressure: Gay-Lussac
• The gas law tells you what equation to use

Once you have your variables and your gas law, you can plug the givens into the equation and solve for your unknown!

What gas law is this?
A balloon inflated in a room at 24 Celsius has a volume of 40L. The balloon is then heated to 58 Celsius. What is the new volume? (Pressure constant)

VARIABLES

• T1=24 Celsius
• V1=4.0L
• T2=58 Celsius
• V2=???

Did you guess Charles's Law?

That's correct!

Charles Law involves temperature and volume.