Volume And Pressure Essay

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Introduction In this experiment the relationship between volume and pressure and the relationship between temperature and volume are explored with the LabQuest pressure sensor. First, the sensor and a syringe were used to find the relationship between volume and pressure by changing the volume within the syringe while it was connected to the sensor. Next the sensor was connected into an Erlenmeyer flask which was put into boiling water that was slowly lowered to 0○ to measure the change in pressure while the temperature dropped. The first relationship is called Boyle’s Law and was originally found by Robert Boyle, who published it in 16621. This law is now used to carbonate sodas. By pressurizing soda cans, the CO2 gas inside it is forced to dissolve, and when the can is opened, the pressure is relieved, and the gas begins to …show more content…

As shown in Table 1, in comparing 2.50 mL to 5.00mL and 10.0 mL to 40.0 mL, the larger the volume, the lower the pressure; the smaller the volume, the higher the pressure (DQ 4). This makes sense, since, as previously mentioned, the pressure and volume are inversely proportional (DQ 4). In the second half of the experiment, temperature and pressure were revealed to have a directly proportional relationship (DQ 5). This relationship is modeled by k=P/T, where P is pressure, T is temperature, and k is a constant in kPa/K (Table 2) (DQ 5, 6).

Table 2: Pressure readings and calculated kPartB values at each specified temperature.
Temperature, T (K) Pressure, P (kPa) Constant, kPartB (kPa/K)
300 84.1 0.280
320 89.3 0.279
340 94.4 0.278
360 99.5

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