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Q.Obtain an ideal gas law from Boyle's and Charles' law.
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Step 1. Boyle's law: at constant temperature, . Charles' law: at constant pressure, .
Step 2. Combining the two proportionalities gives for some constant .
Step 3. Considering two identical gas containers (same ) merged into one combined system (now unchanged but and ) shows must scale with the particle number: , where is the universal Boltzmann constant.
Step 4. Substituting gives the ideal gas law ; writing and turns this into the molar form .
✓Final answer
, equivalently .
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