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Gas Laws Investigation Essay

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The results indicate that there is a direct correlation between the Volume and the Pressure exerted within it, at a constant temperature. While there is a relatively large error range in which the data could be found it seems conclusive that a decreasing power trend line is formed as the volume increases. This means that as the volume increases the pressure will decrease at ever reducing rates. These results are very similar and represent the general trends that are believed to be true by the wider scientific community. While this may not mean that there will always be a correlation, although it has yet to be proven otherwise, it certainly helps to support the accuracy of our data. However from Boyles’s law we can tell that …show more content…

As it is highly unlikely, while not impossible, that there was a malfunction with the computer calculations or programing we can there for assume that the systematic error were a result of both my and the measuring tools inaccuracies which will be further discussed in the evaluation.
The data that I have collected is not very accurate as I have discussed above. We can see this not only in the inaccuracy in the constant but also in the curvature of the line. Looking at either the linear or the power graph we can see that the data is regularly off the line and does not stay true to it. This is because of several factors. Firstly and almost entirely this inaccuracy is due to the measuring equipment provided. Being a simulation the normal controlled variables are which factors for inequality are not present, the absence of variables such as winds or solar radiation mean that the readings should be extremely accurate. Due to this only one variable was need to be controlled and that was the temperature. As stated before the temperature was reasonably controlled although a quicker and more accurate machine would have helped us to have a greater control over the all the variables, not just the temperature. So while the change in value would have made a small impact on the inaccuracy it can’t account for the majority of the inaccuracy, this

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