ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Charles's law

Imagine you have a balloon that is empty at first. When you blow air into the balloon, it gets bigger and bigger. This is because the air molecules inside the balloon start moving around more and more, pushing against the sides of the balloon and stretching it out.

This is kind of like what happens with Charles's Law. Charles's Law is a scientific rule that says if you keep the pressure of a gas the same, the volume of the gas will get bigger as the temperature goes up.

To understand this, let's think about our balloon again. If you heat up the air inside the balloon (by holding it over a fire or something), the air molecules will start moving around faster and faster. This will cause them to push against the sides of the balloon even more, making the balloon get bigger.

This is because the air molecules need more space to move around as they get faster, so the volume of the gas increases.

So, Charles's Law is basically like a rule that tells us what will happen to the size of a gas (like the air in our balloon) when we change its temperature. If we heat it up, it will get bigger, and if we cool it down, it will get smaller.

Overall, Charles's Law helps scientists understand and predict how gases will behave in different conditions.