Comments on: Compressed air: A bike tire analogy /compressed-air-a-bike-tire-analogy/ Tips, Trends, Resources, News and Information Fri, 02 Dec 2022 12:12:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: William Ketel /compressed-air-a-bike-tire-analogy/#comment-418488 Fri, 02 Dec 2022 12:12:11 +0000 /?p=8263#comment-418488 An interesting bit of common sense, backed up by the universal gas equation: PV=nRT ! So as we make n, the mass of the gas, (air in this case) much larger, the effect of changes in V, (the gas volume), will have less effect on the pressure.

This is also effective, as the caption of the photo describes, in compensating for inadequate capacity of the air distribution system.

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