No, volume and temperature are proportional. It's pressure and temperature that are inversely proportional.
This excerpt from Wikipedia covering Charle's Law and Boyle's Law should help:
Charles's law is one of the gas laws. It states that:
At constant pressure, the volume of a given mass of an ideal gas increases or decreases by the same factor as its temperature (in kelvins) increases or decreases.
The formula for the law is:
V/T=k
where:
V is the volume of the gas
T is the temperature of the gas (measured in kelvins)
k is a constant.
To maintain the constant, k, during heating of a gas at fixed pressure, the volume must increase. Conversely, cooling the gas decreases the volume. The exact value of the constant need not be known to make use of the law in comparison between two volumes of gas at equal pressure.
Boyle's Law states that:
PV=k
where:
P is the pressure of the gas
V is the volume of the gas
k is a constant, and has units of force times distance.
Which simply means that at a constant temperature an increase in volume will result in a decrease in pressure.
If you're really curious you can experiment using ballons and test it yourself. Fill 2 balloons to as close to the same size as you can then put one in the refrigerator for awhile and the other maybe in a hot car with the windows rolled up. The one in the frig should be smaller than the one in the hot car after awhile.
2007-03-24 22:24:31
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answered by GatorGal 4
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In gas law, at constant pressure increase in volume creates a decrease in temp, decrease in volume creates an increase in temp. Its inversely proportional
2007-03-24 17:31:49
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answered by Anonymous
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in gases, i believe a decrease in volume causes an increase in temperature if i am correct
2007-03-24 16:32:44
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answered by ace of spades 116 3
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if u can find this out, you are a genius
2007-03-24 15:21:53
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answered by kudo shinichi 2
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