When used to determine functional residual capacity, the body plethysmograph operates on which of the following physical principles?

a. Dalton's law
b. Charles' law
c. Boyle's law
d. Gay-Lussac's law


ANS: C
The plethysmography technique applies Boyle's law and uses measurements of volume and pres-sure changes to determine lung volume, assuming temperature is constant.

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