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Pressure vs. Number of Particles Lab Report

Introduction: The experiment deals with many different parts and one of them is gas, a substance that moves freel through the air and their particles are stread farther away from each other when compared to the other states of matter. The difference between the states of matter are how close the particles are to each other. The experiment was completed to find how pressure affects the number of particles.
Pressure, which is the force exerted on an object by physical contact, was used to apply force into the pressure sensor. A pressure sensor measures the amount of force can object has and this will tell us how the pressure is affecting the number of particles. Also the volume, of the pressure …show more content…

The graph for a proportional relationship, where one variable does effect another should be a increasing linear line that passes through the origin. When referencing Figure 1, the graph of pressure vs number of particles is a linear line. Also the graph explains the proportional increase, for example, when the number of particles was 0.000205mol and the pressure was 56.65KPa and when there was 0.000205mol there was 84.3KPa. This happens because when the temperature increases in the air, the faster the particles get and this means that three is more frequent and greater force of collisions. This shows that when the number of particles increased the pressure increases. However that's not the reason for the proportional graph. The graph is proportional because it has a constant ratio. Also the linear trend line on the graph created during the experiment does not start exactly at zero, but is 7.73. This is the reason for the trendline being a little off because of this small error in the lab. Also the trendline is supposed to have a configuration of y=mx+0. The equation for the pressure vs number of particles data is y= 237857x+7.73. However this did not change the experiment to the point of false data. Overall the hypothesis was supported because the data has a constant …show more content…

When the pressure was added to the pressure sensor, it increased the particles speed and added more particles too. Also the object that withheld the pressure had a constant volume, meaning the shape did not change Then when the student increased the pressure the greater number of particles. When the air temperature increases, the particles sped up and this created greater force during the collisions. Also the graph was supposed to start at zero however the y-intercept was off by a little because of an error that occurred in the lab. But overall, the graph expressed what was expected and shows a linear trendline that

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