Friday, November 18, 2011

5.19 Boyle's Law (no gallery)

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5.19 use the relationship between the pressure and volume of a fixed mass of gas at constant temperature:

                 p1V1 = p2V2

p1 = Pressure at the beginning [kPa, bar or atm]
V1 = Volume at the beginning [m3 or cm3]
p2 = Pressure at the end [kPa, bar or atm]
V2 = Volume at the end [m3 or cm3]

(Note: can use any units for V and p as long as they are the same at the beginning and end)

 

Fun with the vacuum pump!
·         
Marshmellows
·         Food colouring in pipettes
·         Surgical gloves

5.19 Ideal graph and conclusion

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5.19 Experiment

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·         
Change the pressure of a fixed mass of gas at a constant temperature
·         Measure the volume
·         Use the EXCEL spreadsheet to analyse your results

Ideal Gas - Boyle's Law.xlsx Download this file

Friday, November 11, 2011

5.17


Why do the eggs get sucked into the bottles?!

Explanation

·         The burning paper in the bottle heats the air in the bottle
·         When the egg gets placed on top, the oxygen supply in the bottle is rapidly depleted and the paper goes out
·         The bottle is sealed by the egg and now has a constant volume of gas inside
·         The hot gas in the bottle now starts to cool which reduces the pressure inside the bottle
·         The pressure outside the bottle remains unchanged and so there is now an unbalanced force on the egg which accelerates the egg into the bottl
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·         5.17 describe the qualitative relationship between pressure and Kelvin temperature for a gas in a sealed container

Instructions

·         Launch the application on this website:http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/gas-properties

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·         
Put 5 pumps of gas in
·         Set volume as the Constant Parameter
·         Heat to 1000K
·         Watch what happens to the Pressure

 

Conclusion

·         If you increase the temperature, you increase the pressure

Video - Egg sucked into a bottle by Guy-Lussac's Law.flv Watch on Posterous

5.18 Gay-lussac's law

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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

5.14

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5.14 describe the Kelvin scale of temperature and be able to convert between the Kelvin and Celsius scales
Converting Centigrade to Kelvin
TK = ToC + 273

Converting Kelvin to Centigrade
ToC = TK - 273

TK = Temperature in Kelvin [K]
ToC = Temperature in Degrees Centigrade [oC]

5.14) Kelvin Scale & Absolute Zero.docx Download this file

PhET Gas Properties simulation

5.13

5.13 Starter
·         
How can you fit a giraffe, 2 dogs and a swan into a standard laboratory beaker?!

5.13 Starter 2

·         Use particle theory to explain why the gas in the balloon contracts

 

Explanation

·         The temperature of the gas inside the balloon decreases so the average speed of the particles decreases
·         Consequently the gas particles collide with the walls of the balloon with less force and less collisions per second
·         Because the walls of the container are flexible, the  volume decreases

5.13 Charles' law
28 October 2011
11:10
·         5.13 understand that there is an absolute zero of temperature which is –273oC

 

 

<<Charles' law interactive experiment.swf>>

 

Open the Charles' law interactive experiment

·         Adjust the temperature
·         What’s the relationship between temperature and volume?
·         Plot a graph of V against T
·         Take a screen shot of the graph

 

5.13 results and conclusion
28 October 2011
11:10

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Conclusion

·         Volume is directly proportional to absolute (Kelvin) temperature
·         V ÃŽ± T

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Friday, November 4, 2011

5.11


5.11 Starter


·         
You're looking at smoke particles in air under a microscope
·         They appear to be jiggling about
·         Why?

 

·         (Don't worry if you can't work this out straight away - Albert Einstein was the bloke who eventually explained what's happening here!)

5.11
·         5.11 understand the significance of Brownian motion

 

Model 1

·         What does the red puck represent?
·         What do the metal balls represent?

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<<brownian_motion.swf>>

Model 3

·         What do the "smoke" particles look like?
·         Why are they moving?
·         What do the "air" particles look like?

5.11 explained
28 October 2011
11:10

Model 1

·         What does the red puck represent?
o    The large, visible smoke particle
·         What do the metal balls represent?
o    The small, not visible air particles

 

Model 2

·         What do the small red particles represent?
o    The small, not visible air particles
·         What does the large blue particle represent?
o    The large, visible smoke particle
·         What does the view on the left of the screen represent?
o    The view through the microscope lense
·         Why can't you see the red particles in this view?
o    They are too small to see

 

Model 3

·         What do the "smoke" particles look like?
o    They are the 5 large, sand coloured particles
·         Why are they moving?
o    Small, fast moving air particles are colliding with the smoke particles and making them move
·         What do the "air" particles look like?
o    They are the numerous, small, white particles

5.11 Questions

1. Draw the path of a smoke particle in air  (3 marks)
2. Explain what is meant by Brownian Motion of smoke particles in air and how it provides evidence for air particles  (4 marks)
3. What change would you expect to see in the movement of the smoke particles if the air was cooled down?  Why?  (2 marks)

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5.12 + 5.15

This e-lesson consists of 3 objectives; 5.12, 5.15 and 5.11.  I’ll e-mail the other objective separately.

Instructions for Objective 5.12 and 5.15

1.    

5.12+5.15 Starter.  Watch the video and think about the question.  No need to type anything.

2.    5.12+5.15 Questions.  Open the animation.  Forward this e-mail to your blog and complete the questions.

3.    5.12+5.15 Plenary.  Open the attached ppt.  View as slide show.  Think about what the blanks in the table are.  Check your answers with slide 2.  No need to type anything.

4.    Answers to step 2 will be sent separately.  Don’t look at them until you’ve done the work!

Best wishes,
Mr B

5.12+5.15 Starter

 

 

<<Video - simulation of gas pressure in Phun.flv>>

 

 

Questions

·         Why does the needle on the meter move when gas particles are introduced into the box?
·         What does the meter measure?


Answers

·         The gas particles collide with all of the walls of the container.  The wall on the right moves outwards and moves the needle.
·         Pressure.  The gas particles colliding with the walls makes a force on the walls.  The walls have a surface area so the quantity measured is pressure, p=F/A.

5.12+5.15 Questions

·         
5.12 recall that molecules in a gas have a random motion and that they exert a force and hence a pressure on the walls of the container
·         5.15 understand that an increase in temperature results in an increase in the speed of gas molecules

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Try the animation 

http://www.lon-capa.org/~mmp/kap10/cd283.htm
1.    How do the particles create a pressure?
Because gas molecules are moving around at random motion, they eventually collide into the wall of the container, exerting force on its surface.

2.    
If you increase the temperature, how does the movement of the particles change?
The speed of the movement of gas molecules increases due to the increase in average kinetic energy.

3.    
If you increase the temperature, how does the number of collisions per second change?
The collisions per second increases.

4.    
If you increase the temperature, what does this do to the pressure?
The pressure increases due to the increase in kinetic energy, which increase the collision of gas molecules to the wall. As a result, more force is being exerted onto the wall of the container and therefore pressure increases. 

5.12+5.15 Plenary
<<Ideal gases - summary of terms.pptx>>

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