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!
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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

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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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