what is charles's law
Charles' Law. You know how we have laws... like traffic laws. Well gases have laws too! One particular law we are going to look at today is Charles' Law. Charles' Law was named for scientist Jacques Charles, who came up with the idea for the law around 1780. The law says that when temperature increases, the volume of a gas increases, and it increases at the same rate. What this means is, as a gas gets hotter, and its atoms move faster, the amount of space it takes up, or its volume, gets bigger, too.