Answer:
<em>Relationship between pressure and air volume and led to the understanding of how respiration works</em>
Explanation:
Boyle's Law tells that in a closed system and at a constant temperature, the pressure exerted by a gas is inversely proportional to its volume. It is an experimental gas law.
Henry Power and Richard Townley were the first scientists to study the relationship between volume and pressure, their discoveries were published in 17th century.
Robert Boyle confirmed their results with experiments. The experimental setup for Hook was built by Robert Hook.
Boyle's law is used to explain the functioning of breathing system in humans. The increase and decrease of the lung volume causes increase and decrease in the pressure of the air inside lungs respectively. It creates a pressure difference between environmental pressure and the air inside lungs. This pressure difference is responsible for inhalation and exhalation.
