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| [[Image:Charles and Gay-Lussac's Law animated.gif|thumb|300px|An animation demonstrating the relationship between volume and temperature.]]
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| {{Continuum mechanics}}
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| '''Charles' law''' (also known as the '''law of volumes''') is an experimental [[gas laws|gas law]] which describes how [[gas]]es tend to expand when heated. A modern statement of Charles' law is:
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| <blockquote>
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| The [[volume]] of a given mass of an [[ideal gas]] is [[Proportionality_(mathematics)#Direct_proportionality|directly proportional]] to its temperature on the [[Kelvin|absolute temperature scale]] (in Kelvin) if [[pressure]] and the [[amount of substance|amount of gas]] remain constant; that is, the volume of the gas increases or decreases by the same factor as its temperature.<ref>{{Citation
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| | publisher = Heinemann
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| | isbn = 0-435-57078-1
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| | pages = 141–42
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| | last = Fullick
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| | title = Physics
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| | year = 1994
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| }}.</ref>
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| </blockquote>
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| this [[Proportionality_(mathematics)#Direct_proportionality|directly proportional]] relationship can be written as:
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| :<math>V \propto T\,</math>
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| :<math>\frac{V}{T}=k</math>
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| where:
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| :''V'' is the [[volume]] of the gas
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| :''T'' is the [[temperature]] of the gas (measured in [[Kelvin]]).
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| :''k'' is a [[Constant (mathematics)|constant]].
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| This law explains how a gas expands as the temperature increases; conversely, a decrease in temperature will lead to a decrease in volume. For comparing the same substance under two different sets of conditions, the law can be written as:
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| :<math>\frac{V_1}{T_1} = \frac{V_2}{T_2} \qquad \mathrm{or} \qquad \frac {V_2}{V_1} = \frac{T_2}{T_1} \qquad \mathrm{or} \qquad V_1 T_2 = V_2 T_1.</math>
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| The equation shows that, as absolute temperature increases, the volume of the gas also increases in proportion. The law was named after scientist [[Jacques Charles]], who formulated the original law in his unpublished work from the 1780s.
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| ==History==
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| It was first published by [[France|French]] [[natural philosopher]] [[Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac]] in 1802,<ref name="GL02">{{citation | author = Gay-Lussac, J. L. | authorlink = Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac | year = L'An X – 1802 | title = Recherches sur la dilatation des gaz et des vapeurs |trans_title = Researches on the expansion of gases and vapors | journal = Annales de chimie | volume = 43 | pages = 137–175 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=Z6ctSn3TIeYC&pg=PA137#v=onepage&q&f=false}}. [http://web.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/gaygas.html English translation (extract).]<br>
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| On page 157, Gay-Lussac mentions the unpublished findings of Charles: "''Avant d'aller plus loin, je dois prévenir que quoique j'eusse reconnu un grand nombre de fois que les gaz oxigène, azote, hydrogène et acide carbonique, et l'air atmosphérique se dilatent également depuis 0° jusqu'a 80°, le cit. Charles avait remarqué depuis 15 ans la même propriété dans ces gaz ; mais n'avant jamais publié ses résultats, c'est par le plus grand hasard que je les ai connus''." (Before going further, I should inform [you] that although I had recognized many times that the gases oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, and carbonic acid [i.e., carbon dioxide], and atmospheric air also expand from 0° to 80°, citizen Charles had noticed 15 years ago the same property in these gases; but having never published his results, it is by the merest chance that I knew of them.)</ref> although he credited the discovery to unpublished work from the 1780s by [[Jacques Charles]]. The law was independently discovered by [[United Kingdom|British]] natural philosopher [[John Dalton]] by 1801, although Dalton's description was less thorough than [[Gay-Lussac]]'s.<ref>J. Dalton (1802) [http://books.google.com/books?id=3qdJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA595#v=onepage&q&f=false "Essay IV. On the expansion of elastic fluids by heat,"] ''Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester'', vol. 5, pt. 2, pages 595–602.</ref><ref>http://www.chemistryexplained.com/Fe-Ge/Gay-Lussac-Joseph-Louis.html</ref> The basic principles had already been described a century earlier by [[Guillaume Amontons]].<ref>See:
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| * Amontons, G. (presented 1699, published 1732) [http://books.google.com/books?id=_czOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA114#v=onepage&q&f=false "Moyens de substituer commodément l'action du feu à la force des hommes et des chevaux pour mouvoir les machines"] (Ways to conveniently substitute the action of fire for the force of men and horses in order to power machines), ''Mémoires de l’Académie des sciences de Paris'' (presented 1699, published 1732), 112–126; see especially pages 113–117.
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| * Amontons, G. (presented 1702, published 1743) [http://books.google.com/books?id=P_Wgj2sMY-4C&pg=PA155#v=onepage&q&f=false "Discours sur quelques propriétés de l'Air, & le moyen d'en connoître la température dans tous les climats de la Terre"] (Discourse on some properties of air and on the means of knowing the temperature in all climates of the Earth), ''Mémoires de l’Académie des sciences de Paris'', 155–174.
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| * Review of Amontons' findings: [http://books.google.com/books?id=P_Wgj2sMY-4C&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false "Sur une nouvelle proprieté de l'air, et une nouvelle construction de Thermométre"] (On a new property of the air and a new construction of thermometer), ''Histoire de l'Academie royale des sciences'', 1–8 (submitted: 1702 ; published: 1743).
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| * Englishman [[Francis Hauksbee]] (1660–1713) independently also discovered Charles's law: Francis Hauksbee (1708) [http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/26/313-324/93.full.pdf+html "An account of an experiment touching the different densities of air, from the greatest natural heat to the greatest natural cold in this climate,"] ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London'' '''26'''(315): 93–96.</ref>
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| Gay-Lussac was the first to demonstrate that the law applied generally to all gases, and to the [[vapour]]s of volatile liquids if the temperature was more than a few degrees above the boiling point.<ref>Gay-Lussac (1802), from [http://books.google.com/books?id=Z6ctSn3TIeYC&pg=PA166#v=onepage&q&f=false page 166]:<br>
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| "''Si l'on divise l'augmentation totale de volume par le nombre de degrés qui l'ont produite ou par 80, on trouvera, en faisant le volume à la température 0 égal à l'unité, que l'augmentation de volume pour chaque degré est de 1 / 223.33 ou bien de 1 / 266.66 pour chaque degré du thermomètre centrigrade.''"<br>
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| If one divides the total increase in volume by the number of degrees that produce it or by 80, one will find, by making the volume at the temperature 0 equal to unity (1), that the increase in volume for each degree is 1 / 223.33 or 1 / 266.66 for each degree of the centigrade thermometer.<br>
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| From [http://books.google.com/books?id=Z6ctSn3TIeYC&pg=PA174#v=onepage&q&f=false page 174]:<br>
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| "'' … elle nous porte, par conséquent, à conclure que tous les gaz et toutes les vapeurs se dilatent également par les mêmes degrés de chaleur.''"<br>
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| … it leads us, consequently, to conclude that all gases and all vapors expand equally [when subjected to] the same degrees of heat.</ref>{{citation needed|date=January 2011}} His statement of the law can be expressed mathematically as:
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| :<math>V_{100} - V_0 = kV_0\,</math>
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| where ''V''<sub>100</sub> is the volume occupied by a given sample of gas at 100 °C; ''V''<sub>0</sub> is the volume occupied by the same sample of gas at 0 °C; and ''k'' is a constant which is the same for all gases at constant pressure. Gay-Lussac's value for ''k'' was {{frac|2.6666}}, remarkably close to the present-day value of {{frac|2.7315}}. This law was first given by J. Charles in 1787.
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| ==Relation to absolute zero==
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| Charles's law appears to imply that the volume of a gas will descend to zero at a certain temperature (−266.66 °C according to Gay-Lussac's figures) or −273°C. Gay-Lussac was clear in his description that the law was not applicable at low temperatures:
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| but I may mention that this last conclusion cannot be true except so long as the compressed vapors remain entirely in the elastic state; and this requires that their temperature shall be sufficiently elevated to enable them to resist the pressure which tends to make them assume the liquid state.<ref name="GL02" />
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| </blockquote>
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| Gay-Lussac had no experience of [[liquid air]] (first prepared in 1877), although he appears to believe (as did Dalton) that the "permanent gases" such as air and hydrogen could be liquified. Gay-Lussac had also worked with the vapours of volatile liquids in demonstrating Charles's law, and was aware that the law does not apply just above the boiling point of the liquid:
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| I may however remark that when the temperature of the ether is only a little above its boiling point, its condensation is a little more rapid than that of atmospheric air. This fact is related to a phenomenon which is exhibited by a great many bodies when passing from the liquid to the solid state, but which is no longer sensible at temperatures a few degrees above that at which the transition occurs.<ref name="GL02" /> | |
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| The first mention of a temperature at which the volume of a gas might descend to zero was by [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin|William Thomson]] (later known as Lord Kelvin) in 1848:<ref name="Kelvin48">{{citation | author = Thomson, William | authorlink = William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin | year = 1848 | title = On an Absolute Thermometric Scale founded on Carnot's Theory of the Motive Power of Heat, and calculated from Regnault's Observations | url = http://zapatopi.net/kelvin/papers/on_an_absolute_thermometric_scale.html | journal = Philosophical Magazine | pages = 100–6}}.</ref>
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| This is what we might anticipate, when we reflect that infinite cold must correspond to a finite number of degrees of the air-thermometer below zero; since if we push the strict principle of graduation, stated above, sufficiently far, we should arrive at a point corresponding to the volume of air being reduced to nothing, which would be marked as −273° of the scale (−100/.366, if .366 be the coefficient of expansion); and therefore −273° of the air-thermometer is a point which cannot be reached at any finite temperature, however low.
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| </blockquote>
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| However, the "absolute zero" on the Kelvin temperature scale was originally defined in terms of the [[second law of thermodynamics]], which Thomson himself described in 1852.<ref>{{citation | author = Thomson, William | authorlink = William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin | year = 1852 | title = On the Dynamical Theory of Heat, with numerical results deduced from Mr Joule's equivalent of a Thermal Unit, and M. Regnault's Observations on Steam | journal = Philosophical Magazine | volume = 4}}. [http://web.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/KELVIN1.html Extract.]</ref> Thomson did not assume that this was equal to the "zero-volume point" of Charles's law, merely that Charles's law provided the minimum temperature which could be attained. The two can be shown to be equivalent by [[Ludwig Boltzmann|Ludwig Boltzmann's]] [[Entropy (statistical thermodynamics)|statistical view of entropy]] (1870).<!-- and possibly also by Clausius, I haven't checked -->
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| ==Relation to kinetic theory==
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| The [[Kinetic theory|kinetic theory of gases]] relates the [[macroscopic]] properties of gases, such as pressure and volume, to the [[microscopic]] properties of the molecules which make up the gas, particularly the mass and speed of the molecules. In order to derive Charles's law from kinetic theory, it is necessary to have a microscopic definition of temperature: this can be conveniently taken as the temperature being proportional to the average [[kinetic energy]] of the gas molecules, <u style="font-style:italic; text-decoration:overline">E</u><sub>k</sub>:
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| :<math>T \propto \bar{E_{\rm k}}.\,</math>
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| Under this definition, the demonstration of Charles's law is almost trivial. The kinetic theory equivalent of the ideal gas law relates ''pV'' to the average kinetic energy:
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| :<math>pV = \frac{2}{3} N \bar{E_{\rm k}}\,</math>
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| where ''N'' is the number of molecules in the gas sample. If the pressure is constant, the volume is directly proportional to the average kinetic energy (and hence to the temperature) for any given gas sample.
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| ==See also==
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| {{portal|Underwater diving}}
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| * [[Boyle's law]]
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| * [[Combined gas law]]
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| * [[Gay-Lussac's law]]
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| * [[Avogadro's law]]
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| * [[Ideal gas law]]
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| * [[Hand boiler]]
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| ==References==
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| {{reflist}}
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| ==Further reading==
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| *{{citation | author=Krönig, A. | authorlink = August Krönig | year = 1856 | title =Grundzüge einer Theorie der Gase | journal = Annalen der Physik | volume = 99 | pages = 315–22 | doi=10.1002/andp.18561751008 | bibcode=1856AnP...175..315K}}. [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k15184h/f327.table Facsimile at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (pp. 315–22).]
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| *{{citation | author = Clausius, R. | authorlink = Rudolf Clausius | title = Ueber die Art der Bewegung, welche wir Wärme nennen | journal = Annalen der Physik und Chemie | volume = 176 | pages = 353–79 | year = 1857 | doi = 10.1002/andp.18571760302 | bibcode=1857AnP...176..353C}}. [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k15185v/f371.table Facsimile at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (pp. 353–79).]</ref>
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| *{{citation | title = Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac – Liste de ses communications | url = http://www.polytechnique.fr/bcx/associations/gaylussac/pages/CommunicationsGL.html }} {{dead link|date=May 2010}}. {{fr icon}}
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| ==External links==
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| {{wikibooks|School Science|Making Charles's law tubes}}
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| *[http://www.chm.davidson.edu/CHEMISTRYAPPLETS/GASLAWS/CharlesLaw.html Charles's law simulation] from [[Davidson College]], Davidson, North Carolina
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| *[http://www.tutorvista.com/content/chemistry/chemistry-iii/matter-states/charles-law-animation.php Charles's law simulation] from TutorVista.com
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| *[http://www.webqc.org/charles_gas_law.html Charles's law calculator] from WebQC.org
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| *[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkRIKGN3i0k Charles's law demonstration] by Prof. Robert Burk, [[Carleton University]], Ottawa, Canada
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| *[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4506461547173401204 Charles's law animation] from the Leonardo Project (GTEP/[[Cramlington Learning Village|CCHS]], UK)
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