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The volume of air in the lungs of a typical human is 6.0 L. Traditional free divers, known for their ability to hold their breath during long dives while gathering objects from the ocean bottom, could descend underwater to a depth of 30 m where the pressure is four times that at the surface. What would be the volume of air in their lungs at 30 m?

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Answer: these are for questions 1,2,4,5,7

Explanation: number 3: as the pressure in the volume decreases, the volume increases causing it to expand and eventually blow.

number 6: because the temperature and the amount of gas don’t change, these terms don’t appear in the equation. What Boyle’s law means is that the volume of a mass of gas is inversely proportional to its pressure. This linear relationship between pressure and volume means doubling the volume of a given mass of gas decreases its pressure by half.

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