Talk:Ideal gas law/Draft

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Some comments

  1. IUPAC prescribes lowercase p for pressure.
  2. Is it necessary to give all forms? In other words can't we expect the reader to know some elementary algebra? (When I went to highschool it was first grade material, student's age around 12 years)
  3. Molar gas constant R in SI units: 8.314 472 J mol−1K−1 see: http://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Value?r%7Csearch_for=R Don't you also want to give: R = NA kB ?
  4. The word "constant" in roman: \mathrm{constant}. Same for mol, K, and atm.
  5. The name of the law varies. I learned in school "law of Boyle and Gay-Lussac".
  6. You give these worked-out problems, that is OK for a textbook, but for an encyclopedia?

Hope these comments are useful. --Paul Wormer 05:19, 4 October 2007 (CDT)

ideal gas and ideal gas law

Maybe we should merge the two into one article? ideal gas doesn't exist yet, so no real merging is necessary. What do you think? Yuval Langer 06:46, 4 October 2007 (CDT)