Chemistry · Chapter 9

The Simple Gas Laws, One at a Time

Each law holds two things still and lets the other two trade. Pick a law, move its slider, and watch the piston, the particles and the graph answer together.

Piston and graph both update live

A piston of gas and the graph of the law you chose heat source below

Choose a law

Boyle's lawSqueeze the gas and the pressure climbs.

The four numbers

Pressure
Volume
Temperature
Amount

Every state here satisfies PV = nRT with R = 0.08206 L·atm/mol·K. The law you picked is just that one equation with two things nailed down.