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Beginner's Guide to Propulsion
Boyle's Law - Worksheet
- Which variable is plotted on the graph's vertical axis?
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- Which variable is plotted on the graph's horizontal
axis? _______________________
- Locate the temperature gauge. What is the Kelvin temperature?
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- Which of the following conditions is that temperature closer
to? room temperature? human body temperature? freezer temperature?
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- The red plunger is used to exert pressure on the gas molecules
in which colored area? _______________________
- Complete the table below as you watch the animated gas
lab.
PRESSURE
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VOLUME
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1.00
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1.33
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2.00
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- What do you predict the volume will be when the pressure
changes to 4.00? _______________________
- Sketch the completed pressure-volume graph.
- Click on "Effect of changing pressure on
volume." Describe what is added to the piston to increase
the pressure.
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- Sketch the completed volume-pressure graph.
- Write the formula equation for Boyle's Law.
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- Write the equation for Boyle's Law in words.
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- In the Animated
Gas Lab, what are the units of pressure?
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- What are the units of volume used in this lab?
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- Predict what the volume in this lab would be if the pressure
were 8.00. ___________________________
- Predict what the volume in this lab would be if the pressure
were 0.500. ___________________________
- State Boyle's law in your own words.
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- Zip a sandwich bag nearly closed. Insert a straw into the
opening and blow through the straw to inflate the bag so that it
is a little over half full of air. Completely seal the bag. Now
slowly roll the zipper part of the bag toward the bottom of the
bag, decreasing the volume of the bag. Describe what happens to
the pressure of the air in the bag as you decrease its volume.
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- How does your experience with the plastic bag compare to the
animated gas lab? ___________________________
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- If, in either situation, instead of having a closed container
you had a small opening in the bottom of it, what would eventually
happen to the gas?
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- Referring to the previous question, what would happen to the
volume of the gas in the container?
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- Referring to the previous question, what would happen to the
pressure of the gas? __________________________
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- Based on the questions above, hypothesize why a jet engine
must constantly have air flowing into it in order to maintain
pressure.
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