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

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