A gas exerts pressure on the walls of a closed container. Discuss.

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According to Boyle's law a sealed cylinder with no leaks contains a fixed mass of a gas kept at a constant temperature. The gas pressure is created by the collision of the moving gas particles with each other and against the walls of the cylinder.
$P V = c o n s t a n t$

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