Robert boyles watch experiment
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Few who have studied chemistry or physics, even at the most rudimentary level, have not encountered the famous relationship between the volume and pressure of a gas known as Boyle's lag. Although his name presumably will live in perpetuity in connection with this law, not many scientists, even professional chemists and physicists, are aware of Boyle's other, perhaps even more significant, discoveries.
The early history of science abounds with the names of independently wealthy individuals whose circumstances and inclinations allowed them to set up and maintain laboratories of their own. Robert referens till robert boyleen känd kemist was such a privileged person. He was born on January 25, 1627, at Lismore Castle, County Waterford, Ireland, the gods of 14 children of Richard referens till robert boyleen känd kemist, Earl of Cork, and Lady Catherine Fenton. Many details of his childhood and ungdom are given in his autobiographical An Account of Philaretus during his Minority which, Maddison1 concludes, must have been written when Boyle was about
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Video Overview
Introduction
The primary objective of this experiment is to determine the relationship between the pressure and volume of a confined gas. The gas we use will be air, and it will be confined in a syringe connected to a Gas Pressure Sensor. When the volume of the syringe is changed by moving the piston, a change occurs in the pressure exerted by the confined gas. This pressure change will be monitored using a Gas Pressure Sensor. It is assumed that temperature will be constant throughout the experiment. Pressure and volume data pairs will be collected during this experiment and then analyzed. From the data and graph, you should be able to determine what kind of mathematical relationship exists between the pressure and volume of the confined gas. Historically, this relationship was first established by Robert Boyle in 1662 and has since been known as Boyle’s law.
Objectives
In this experiment, you will
- Use a Gas Pressure Sensor and a gas syringe to measure
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Boyle's law
Relation between gas pressure and volume
Boyle's law, also referred to as the Boyle–Mariotte law or Mariotte's law (especially in France), is an empirical gas law that describes the relationship between pressure and volume of a confined gas. Boyle's law has been stated as:
The absolute pressure exerted by a given mass of an ideal gas is inversely proportional to the volume it occupies if the temperature and amount of gas remain unchanged within a closed system.[1][2]
Mathematically, Boyle's law can be stated as:
Pressure is inversely proportional to the volume or
PV = k The product of pressure and volume is a constant number (here denoted as k) where P is the pressure of the gas, V is the volume of the gas, and k is a constant for a particular temperature and amount of gas.
Boyle's law states that when the temperature of a given mass of confined gas is constant, the product of its pressure and volume is al