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For the purpose of understanding this, think of temperature as movement - high temperature means the particles are excited, moving around with more energy. Think of pressure as how much those particles are 'trying to move apart' on average due to hitting each other and bouncing around.

If you want to increase the temperature without making them interact more (pressure), they need more room to move (volume).

It's a gross over-simplification of the physics, but it should help to visualize why the laws relating temperature, volume, and pressure are what they are.

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