What is the relationship between pressure and volume of a gas at constant temperature?
Correct Answer: Pressure and volume are inversely proportional.
- Step 1: Understand that we are looking at a gas and its behavior when temperature does not change.
- Step 2: Know that pressure is the force that gas particles exert on the walls of their container.
- Step 3: Know that volume is the amount of space that the gas occupies.
- Step 4: Remember Boyle's Law, which states that if the temperature is constant, when the volume of a gas decreases, the pressure increases.
- Step 5: Conversely, if the volume of a gas increases, the pressure decreases.
- Step 6: This means that pressure and volume are inversely related: as one goes up, the other goes down.
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