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CRS Question, 5–5
ANSWER
Choice 3 provides the connection between temperature
and pressure that would introduce another variable when
studying the pressure-volume relationship. Boyle’s shows that if the molecules of a trapped
gas maintain the same average velocity when their volume is changed,
the pressure will be inversely related to the volume change.
Section
5.2: The Gas Laws of Boyle, Charles, and Avogadro