A trucker is driving from New Jersey to California to make a delivery of couches. He forgets to adjust the pressure of his tires

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A trucker is driving from New Jersey to California to make a delivery of couches. He forgets to adjust the pressure of his tires

before his trip and end up blowing out two of his tires while driving through Arizona. Whose law does this example depict? What does this law state? Use the law to explain what happened to the tires.

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aniked [119] · Answer 1 · 2021-12-20T15:57:06+03:00

Answer:

<u>Gay-Lussac's law.</u>

Explanation:

According to Gay-Lussac's pressure law, it states that the pressure of a given mass of gas is <em>directly</em> proportional to the absolute temperature of the gas, the assumption that the volume is kept constant.

Hence, the trucker's tires were blown up because they were under high pressure as he drove from New Jersey to California, as a result of this intense pressure the temperature of the air in the tires began to rise and it directly affected the pressure of the gas in the tires' tubes which also increased to a point that they ended up blowing out, obeying Gay-Lussac's law.