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At the start of a trip, a driver adjusts the absolute pressure in her tires to be 2.81 x 10^5 Pa when the outdoor temperature is 284 K. At the end of the trip she measures the pressure to be 3.01 x 10^5 Pa. Ignoring the expansion of the tires, find the air temperature inside the tires at the end of the trip.

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Using the ideal gas law - changing pressure results in what change in temperature in a tyre?

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The Ideal gas law tells you that PV/T (pressure multiplied by volume, divided by temperature) is a constant. The problem tells us to ignore the expansion of the ...

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