Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Examples of Gas laws

Charles's law states that when there is constant pressure, temperature and volume are directly related.
An example of this is the pop can lab, when the can went from warm to cold it imploded therefor decreasing the volume of the can.

Boyle's law states that when there is constant temperature, pressure and volume are inversely related to each other. An example of this law is the fog cannon, when the curtain was hit it decreased the volume and increased pressure caused the fog to shoot out.

Gay Lusaac's law states that when there is a constant volume, pressure and temperature are directly related to each other. An example would be the balloon in the flask, when you heated up the water in the flask and then removed the water and covered the top with the balloon the gas inflated the balloon, when you put the balloon into the cold water the pressure on the inside decreased and the balloon was pushed in because the outside pressure was higher.

Monday, November 21, 2011

Kool-Aid Lab

Kool-Aid Questions
Molarity calculations:
A. Add up the total grams of sugar and kool-aid mix you used and record in your data table. Convert grams of Kool-Aid/Sugar Mix to moles (the gram formula mass for the Kool-Aid/Sugar mix is 342 grams/mol)
B. Convert your volume of solution (145 mL) to liters:
C. Molarity= ____mols solute/ _____L of solution

1. What flavor of Kool-Aid did you use?
2. Describe the taste of your Kool-Aid:
3. What is the Molarity of the Kool-Aid in your cup?
4. What would the Molarity of 2 quarts of Kool-Aid be if you followed the directions on the package?
5. Explain how the recipe for Kool-Aid is like a balanced chemical equation.

Friday, November 18, 2011

Vocab

Mixture: combination of two or more pure substances.

Heterogeneous mixture: mixture that does not blend smoothly.

Homogeneous mixture: mixture that does blend smoothly

Solution: homogeneous mixture

Filtration: uses a porous barrier to seperate a solid from a liquid

Distillation: seperation technique that users different boiling points

Crystallization: seperation technique that results in the formation of pure solid particles of a substance

Chromotography: technique that seperates the components of a mixture on the basis of the tendency to travel

Element: pure substance that cannot be seperated into simpler substances

Periodic Table: table that organizes elements into a grid if horizontal rows and vertical columns

Compound: combination of two or more different elements

Law of Definite Proportions: regardless of the amount, compound is always composed of the same elements in the same proportion

Percent by Mass: total mass of the compound as a percentage

Dalton's Atomic Theory: atoms cannot be destroyed or created

Atom: smallest part of an element that still retains its properties

Cathode Ray: Ray of radiation that originated from the cathode end of a tube

Electrons: negatively charged particles

Nucleus: central location that holds all the positively charged particles

Proton: has a positive charge of 1+

Neutron:  mass equal to a proton, no electrical charge

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Real Life example of Boyles law


This law is used to predict behaviors of ideal gases, the most common example of Boyle’s law that one can relate in real life is simple breathing exercise. Breathing can be easily understood when certain factors are correlated to the Boyle’s law. For instance, when we inhale air it essentially means that the inhaled air slides into the lungs which are in low pressure zone tending to increase volume of the air in the lungs. Likewise, during exhalation, the volume of gas in the lungs is thrown out thereby creating high pressure in the lungs and forcing the air out. The Boyle’s law can also be used to predict and help swimmers and divers practice breathing techniques when they go diving. They can get an approximate measure of how much air needs to be inhaled, how much time they need to stop breathing and other factors for a given depth of water and pressure.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Real life example.



this is a real life example of Gay Lusacc's Law because the volume stays the same and temperature and pressure are directly related. when i put it in the freezer the temperature changed and the increase the pressure which made the can pop out and the volume stayed the same.