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)