Question

While traveling, an airplane passenger placed a sealed bag of potato chips in his checked luggage. When he opened the luggage, he observed that apparently the bag had exploded during the flight and potato chips were everywhere in his luggage. Which gas law is this an example of? A) Avogadro's Law B) Ideal Gas Law C) Charles's Law D) Boyle's Law E) Dalton's Law

Answer 1

Answer:

D) Boyle's Law

Explanation:

To understand how the answer is obtained, lets look at the relationship between pressure and height.

Pressure decreases with increasing altitude. At higher elevations, there are fewer air molecules above a given surface than a similar surface at lower levels.

So this means at ground level, the pressure is high and at the space in air where the airplane travels, the pressure is low.

The bag had exploded bécause of the expansion of the gas in the sealed bag of potatoes chips.

Now this situation is an example of Boyle's law because it gives the relationship between volume and pressure.

Boyle's law pretty much says that as the pressure decreases, the volume increases and vice versa.