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  2. Charles's law - Wikipedia

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    Continuum mechanics. Charles's law (also known as the law of volumes) is an experimental gas law that describes how gases tend to expand when heated. A modern statement of Charles's law is: When the pressure on a sample of a dry gas is held constant, the Kelvin temperature and the volume will be in direct proportion.

  3. Gay-Lussac's law - Wikipedia

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    e. Gay-Lussac's law usually refers to Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac 's law of combining volumes of gases, discovered in 1808 and published in 1809. [1] However, it sometimes refers to the proportionality of the volume of a gas to its absolute temperature at constant pressure. The latter law was published by Gay-Lussac in 1802, [2] but in the article ...

  4. Gas laws - Wikipedia

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    Charles' law, or the law of volumes, was founded in 1787 by Jacques Charles. It states that, for a given mass of an ideal gas at constant pressure, the volume is directly proportional to its absolute temperature, assuming in a closed system. The statement of Charles' law is as follows: the volume (V) of a given mass of a gas, at constant ...

  5. List of eponymous laws - Wikipedia

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    Casper's Dictum is a law in forensic medicine that states the ratio of time a body takes to putrefy in different substances – 1:2:8 in air, water and earth. Cassie's law describes the effective contact angle θ c for a liquid on a composite surface. Cassini's laws provide a compact description of the motion of the Moon.

  6. Ideal gas law - Wikipedia

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    This form of the ideal gas law is very useful because it links pressure, density, and temperature in a unique formula independent of the quantity of the considered gas. Alternatively, the law may be written in terms of the specific volume v, the reciprocal of density, as. It is common, especially in engineering and meteorological applications ...

  7. Avogadro's law - Wikipedia

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    Avogadro's law states that "equal volumes of all gases, at the same temperature and pressure, have the same number of molecules." [1] For a given mass of an ideal gas, the volume and amount (moles) of the gas are directly proportional if the temperature and pressure are constant. The law is named after Amedeo Avogadro who, in 1812, [2][3 ...

  8. Laws of thermodynamics - Wikipedia

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    The laws of thermodynamics are a set of scientific laws which define a group of physical quantities, such as temperature, energy, and entropy, that characterize thermodynamic systems in thermodynamic equilibrium. The laws also use various parameters for thermodynamic processes, such as thermodynamic work and heat, and establish relationships ...

  9. Isentropic process - Wikipedia

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    Category. v. t. e. An isentropic process is an idealized thermodynamic process that is both adiabatic and reversible. [1][2][3][4][5][6][excessive citations] The work transfers of the system are frictionless, and there is no net transfer of heat or matter. Such an idealized process is useful in engineering as a model of and basis of comparison ...