The piston of a cylinder containing a quantity of ideal gas is advanced so that the volume of the gas is decreased by one-half. A pressure gauge on the cylinder shows the pressure of the gas to have increased threefold in the process. By what factor does the temperature of the gas change?
It increases by a factor of 3/2 (T2 = 3/2 T1).
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