PH220 Grantham Week 7 Ideal Gas Law Pressure and Volume Lab Report

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Lab Assignment

Welcome to the Lab component of Physics I. This week's lab is called "Ideal Gas Law." You will conduct experiments to see how pressure, volume and temperature of an ideal gas may vary. Do you remember what an ideal gas is?

First, download and read the two documents below:

Click here for the user's guide for "Ideal Gas Law"

Click here for the instructions for the "Ideal Gas Laws" lab

Now, log into your account. https://virtuallabs.ket.org/physics/

Watch the video overview (remember, there is no sound). Watch the arrow as it shows you where to click to perform the lab. You will also find the instructions in the PDF documents to be extremely helpful as you work the lab.

Then, get into the Virtual Physics Lab and run several experiments, using a wide variety of data points. You need to generate a Lab Report to submit for this assignment. Here are the criteria for the Lab Report:

  1. Introduction/Thesis (Explain the principles you are studying, and what results you expect to see in this experiment)
  2. Background (Explain the concepts that form the foundation for this lab)
  3. Methodology (Explain the apparatus used, and how you manipulated the apparatus)
  4. Data (Include screen shots from the Grapher, or spreadsheets that contain data, or any charts or graphs you created)
  5. Analysis (Look over the data and analyze the results - were results consistent with original expectations, or did you see something different?)
  6. Conclusions (Provide your interpretation of what happened with this set of data; provide explanations of why the results turned out the way they did; indicate what sources of error may have impacted the experiment, and anticipate what should happen in future research)

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Running Head: IDEAL GAS LAW LAB REPORT

Ideal Gas Law Lab Report
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Introduction

The experiment aims at exploring the ideal gas law. The behavior of a gas is dependent
on three important variables, namely; the amount of gas (n), the pressure (P), the temperature (T)
and volume (V) (Fleisher, 2001). The relation between these variables is defined in an equation
called the Ideal Gas Law. The law is an idealization since it is developed on the assumption that
the gas is ideal. In an ideal gas, the molecules do not interact and occupy zero volume (Fleisher,
2001). However, real gases have molecules that interact due to the existence of forces of
attraction and repulsion since the gases contain charges. The molecules of a real gas also have a
finite volume. It is important to note that the Ideal Gas Law can be used to perfectly approximate
the behavior of real gases (Fleisher, 2001).
Purpose of Experiment
The main purpose of the experiment is to verify the Ideal Gas Law. That is, the
experiment seeks to investigate how temperature, volume and pressure of an ideal gas change
when one of these variables is held constant and the others varied. The experiment also seeks to
determine the value of absolute zero temperature on t...


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