Lesson 5 - Modeling Pressure Relationships Preview CT-STEM

Exploration 2 - Experiment

Use the virtual syringe temperature model to recreate the piston behavior.

Now that we've completed a number of explorations about how temperature interacts with pressure, and you've built a syringe model that mimics a piston, answer the questions below:

Questions

Please answer the questions below.

Question 6.1

In a system, how are temperature changes related to pressure changes?

Question 6.2

Why would changing both the air temperature inside the syringe and the air temperature outside by the same amount, cause no change in the plunger position?

Question 6.3

How might changing only the outside air temperature, but keeping the air temperature inside the syringe constant, cause the syringe to move?

Question 6.4

How might the air molecules inside a syringe behave differently, if the air temperature inside the syringe did not change, but the outside air temperature decreased dramatically?

Question 6.5

How might the air molecules inside a syringe behave differently, if the air temperature inside the syringe decreased dramatically and the outside air temperature did not change?

Notes

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