Why must an ideal gas obey Boyle's law but not Charles's law?

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Why it is not necessary for an ideal gas to obey Charles's law, but Boyle's only?
 
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abcd8989 said:
Why it is not necessary for an ideal gas to obey Charles's law, but Boyle's only?
An ideal gas obeys the ideal gas law. What makes you think that Boyles' law (which says that P varies inversely as V - temperature being constant) or Charles' law (which, it appears to me, simply says that V is proportional to temperature at constant pressure) are not obeyed by an ideal gas?

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