Preview - Pnom - Particulate Nature Of Matter

Exploration 1 - Question and Hypothesis

Now that you have been introduced to how odor diffuses throughout a space and brainstormed possible factors that may influence this, you will work to develop a model that represents this phenomenon. To guide your model, you will focus on one specific aspect of odor diffusion. To do this, first, think of a question that you can explore using the Diffusion Sandbox model that you explored yesterday. Then, write it in the box below and answer the following questions. 

Questions

Please answer the questions below.

Write the question you will focus on in your investigation below.

Provide a hypothesis below that proposes a possible answer to your question.  It should predict both 1) an outcome to your experiment as well as, 2) a mechanism that helps explain why that outcome would occur.

Plan what you will need to add into the model to conduct the experiment. Next to each, state what this would actually represent in the world around you.

Here is a list of things that you should consider including or excluding:

  • Gas particles
  • Different colors of particles
  • Different temperature gases
  • Different density gases
  • Solid obstacles (non removable)
  • Removable walls (green or red)
  • Particles of different masses

If you choose to include an item, please list it in the table below. You can add more rows to the table with the green plus on the left side. 

Notes

These notes will appear on every page in this lesson so feel free to put anything here you'd like to keep track of.