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Contents 1 0 pressure? 2 Discovery 3 Easy explanation 4 P vs. p 5 Illustration requests 5.1 Equation 5.2 This article has digressed into jibberish 5.3 Practical application of Boyle's Law

[edit] 0 pressure?

What happens to an ideal gas in an infinite space when the pressure is 0? Does the gas expand to infinite volume? --Curtis95112 (talk) 01:22, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Discovery

According to several sources, including Physical Chemistry by Laidler, Meiser, and Sanctuary, Boyle did not discover this relationship, but rather, was the first to publish it. It was discovered by Richard Towneley and Henry Power, two amateur scientists. Boyle confirmed their work and received the credit. As this appears to be the case in most scientific literature, I'm going to change this article accordingly. KraDakar 18:01, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Easy explanation

I remember my physics teacher describing this law as akin to what happens when you have sex and shake a dildo. This could be put in italics, possibly...so that children can understand, you see. Fishystick 22:39, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] P vs. p

On all the other gas law pages, pressure is a capital P. On this one, it's a lowercase p. Everywhere else, I've seen an uppercase P. Perhaps this should be changed? 71.240.251.37 04:35, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. Done. -- 64.9.237.36 00:41, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

WRONG. Capital P denotes POWER, not pressure. Uxorion 10:22, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Illustration requests

• A graph to illustrate the mathematical relationship.
• An illustration to show the relationship using idealized hard spheres.

-- Beland 07:02, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Equation

this section seems to be incomplete, maybe due to a bad edit. Sorry folks but I'm new here so I still need some time to understand how to make proper modifications. Podi74 (talk) 12:22, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Fixed, vandal deletion. Thanks, Vsmith (talk) 12:36, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This article has digressed into jibberish

This article is now a (more or less) complete mess. Too much is indigestible, and notation is inconsistent. Useful stuff has been removed. Unimportant stuff has been added. It has deviated from the modern form. The English is terrible in places. Some interesting stuff has been added and perhaps should be kept, but for the most part it is time for a serious reversion- which I intend to do unless someone explains here why this version (1/1/08), or which portions of this article, should be kept. Key point- just because the orginal author/discover described something in a particular way, it does not mean that that is the current or pedagogically most useful way to present the material today. blackcloak (talk) 02:26, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Practical application of Boyle's Law

It would be useful to add a real world application. One suggestion is barotruama, in which diver's lungs are injured by expanding air as they ascend to the surface, which reduces pressure, all the time in a relatively constant temperature. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Maxthedrive (talk • contribs) 23:47, 4 June 2008 (UTC)