One experiment verifying this law involves taking a J-shaped piece of glass tubing, sealing air at one end, and placing varying amounts of mercury into the tube.
Laplace replaced this law with the adiabatic law to give a correct derivation of the speed of sound. This law was discovered during its namesake's attempts to disprove Franciscus Linus's funicular hypothesis. This law was later derived by taking the limit as the ratio of molecular diameter to average intermolecular distance goes to zero. One experiment verifying this law involves taking a J-shaped piece of glass tubing, sealing air at one end, and placing varying amounts of mercury into the tube. The air pump designed to verify this law was designed by Robert Hooke, an assistant to its namesake. For 10 points, name this gas law which states that for an ideal gas at a fixed temperature, pressure and volume are inversely proportional, a law named after an Irish chemist.
Laplace replaced this law with the adiabatic law to give a correct derivation of the speed of sound.
Boyle-Mariotte Law