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Re: Help Calculating time to recharge air tanks

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Originally Posted by jee7s View Post
I stand corrected. Boyle's Law (PV=PV) assumes that mass (n) and temperature (T) -- hence energy -- are constant.
Even in isothermal processes (T remains constant), the gas does work as it expands and work must be done on it to compress it.