Boyle's Law is where at constant temperature, the volume of a gas is inversely proportional to its pressure; it was named after the man who discovered it, Robert Boyle (West, The Original Presentation of Boyle's Law). In the past, he tested his theory by using a siphon to trap air and see the affects that would occur as he added pressure to the air in his siphon (Fowler, Boyle's Law and the Law of Atmospheres). More recent tests have been done by attaching a syringe to a pressure detector. After
an Irish philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor. He was born in Lismore, County Waterford, Republic of Ireland. He believed in corpuscularism, which stated that reality and change can be best seen through chemical experiments Two of Robert Boyle’s friends, Richard Towneley and Henry Power noted the relationship between volume and pressure before sharing it with Boyle. Robert Boyle was arguing against a scientist by the name of Franciscus Linus, who said that normal atmospheric air does not
This paper is going to discuss Boyle’s Law and how it relates to respiratory care. It will define what the law is, how it works, and why it is important to us. We use this law every day without even thinking about it. So many of our everyday activities and actions are related to certain gas laws that have been built into our lives at home and at work. Without many of the gas laws we would not have the advancements that we have today. Boyle’s Law has had a very important role in our lives. It
alchemy, the study of turning metals into gold. Boyle was a curious person and wasn’t going to settle for an answer that isn’t true or testable, so he decided to do his own experiments to prove his correctness. Boyle is best known for creating “Boyle’s Law” which according to brainpop.com is, “… an observation on the properties of gases that he published in 1662.” After experimenting one day, “Boyle realized that at a constant temperature, the product of a gas’s pressure and volume will always be
Cimone Toppin GSA: Somayeh (Sue) Chemistry 1101- 07 26 February 2017 Properties of Gases: Experiment 4 Report Procedure and Results Part I: Pressure and Volume (Boyle's law- inverse) During the first run through of the lab, Gas Pressure Sensor is connected to the LabQuest with a small plastic syringe connected to it. The syringe is set 15 mL marker (volume) and the pressure is recorded as 101.19 kPa. By changing the syringe 2 mL down for each run (4 times), the following volume and pressure reads
temperature, and pressure. The relation of pressure and volume is described as the Boyle’s law. The relation of pressure and temperature is described as the Gay-Lussac’s law. The most important resources needed for this experiment is the gas pressure sensor, a syringe, a cooling and heating source to increase temperature, and the Lab Quest application to record measurements and graph it. According to Boyle’s law, if the results of pressure versus volume have an inverse relationship,
through marriage, education, or profession. However citizens of impoverished nations will tend to live a more constrained life, as a result of their circumstances and the opportunities they are presented with. This can be evidently seen in Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, through the brothers Jamal and Salim as they grew up in the Slums of Mumbai, India. According to Danny Boyle the role of convention within the Mumbai society needs to be ignored in order for the two of the main characters to attempt
pressure and volume of a gas given the temperature and # of molecules remained constant. Using the Boyle's law apparatus, and textbooks to demonstrate pressure it was concluded that there was a relationship between pressure and volume. However, the relationship was not a direct relationship, and it was determined that the pressure and volume of a gas are inversely proportioned. Thus,proving Boyle's theory correct. Introduction Objectives: The main objective of this lab was to determine the
“If marijuana was legal, back-yard marijuana gardens would be in every neighborhood, thus kids would be able to get it as easy as taking fruit off a neighbor’s tree” (Johnathan Greens). According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 62.2 percent of the 14.2 billion people who used marijuana for the first time in one day were under the age of 18 years back in 2003. This increases by nearly 1.3 percent every year. This has become a problem due to Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) being the active
Thereafter the number fell in response to new conditions in Europe and to the limitations established by U.S. law. (which were to some extent unreasonably mimicked by Canadians eg:Chinese exclusion act) Legislation Regulating Immigration The first measure restricting immigration enacted by Congress was a law in 1862 forbidding American vessels to transport Chinese immigrants to Canada; 20 years later Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act excluding Chinese