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Fu-Kwun Hwang; Francisco (Paco) Esquembre; lookang
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Learning Outcomes
- the variation of gas pressure with temperature (Volume is constant)
- the variation of gas pressure with volume (Temperature is constant)
- the variation of the volume of gas with temperature (Pressure is constant)
Prior Knowledge Activation
Teacher active prior knowledge by reminding students that earlier in Chapter 7, they had studied about pressure and in today’s lesson, they were going to take the concept of pressure further to understand what gave rise to a gas pressure.
Trigger Activity
A trigger activity, the teacher had asked for two volunteers to inflate two balloons. After the balloons were inflated, students were told that the balloons could also had been blown up using a hand or foot pump. A picture of a foot pump with a pressure gauge was shown to the students, and the teacher suggests if it is possible that the balloon had been inflated using the pump, the pressure gauge would register a pressure reading, and would that be similar to the case where car tyres were pumped at petrol kiosks and the pressure meters would read the pressure of the air in the tyres?
Analogy Activity
Analogy activity was conducted through another student volunteer where the student would represent the wall of the container and a ping pong ball would represent an air molecule. The ping pong ball was gently thrown at the student’s body, and the student experienced an impact, and hence experienced a force. Now if the ball was thrown at the student with greater speed, the impact would be greater and the force would be greater. It was then explained to students that what gave rise to a gas pressure was the collisions of the air molecules with the walls of the container containing the air. As there were numerous collisions between the air molecules and the wall, an average force was exerted on the wall. The force per unit area gave rise to the pressure exerted by the molecules on the walls of the container.
Exploration Activity
In the next part of the lesson, the teacher assigned each group to look into a specific exploration task . Within each task, there was a segment for individual exploration where the students followed the instructions on the worksheet to make individual observations on how changing certain parameters of temperature, pressure or volume would change other parameters, and a segment for group exploration where the students would come together and use their individual findings to explain in molecular terms the how and why of those changes. The group would then share their explanations online. The group then nominated a member to present their answers to the class, and the teacher would facilitate the learning by correcting the explanations, as well as adding on to the answers.
Other Related Resources
- http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/legacy/gas-properties Gas Property Lab by PhET
- Flipped Video Lecture 11.1 Ideal Gas Equation by Andreas Dewanto
- Lecture 11.2 Kinetic Theory Of Ideal Gas by Andreas Dewanto
- Lecture11 3 WorkByIdealGas by Andreas Dewanto
Explore how the volume of a gas affects pressure, (constant temperature, isothermal).
Gases can be compressed into smaller volumes. How does compressing a gas affect its pressure?
Run the model, then change the volume of the containers and observe the change in pressure. The moving wall converts the effect of molecular collisions into pressure and acts as a pressure gauge. What happens to the pressure when the volume changes?
Note: Although the atoms in this model are in a flat plane, volume is calculated using 0.1 nm as the depth of the container.
http://lab.concord.org/embeddable.html#interactives/sam/gas-laws/3-volume-pressure-relationship.json
Investigate the relationship between temperature and the volume of a gas, (constant pressure, isobaric)
This model contains gas molecules on the left side and a barrier that moves when the volume of gas expands or contracts, keeping the pressure constant. Run the model and change the temperature. Why does the barrier move when the temperature changes?
Note: Although the atoms in this model are in a flat plane, volume is calculated using 0.1 nm as the depth of the container.
Consider how temperature affects the pressure exerted by a gas, constant volume, isochoric)
Run the model and change the temperature. What happens to the pressure when the temperature changes?
Explore how the volume of a gas is related to the number of gas molecules.
The model contains gas molecules under constant pressure. The barrier moves when the volume of gas expands or contracts. Run the model and select different numbers of molecules from the drop-down menu. What is the relationship between the number of molecules and the volume of a gas?
Note: Although the atoms in this model are in a flat plane, volume is calculated using 0.1 nm as the depth of the container.
http://lab.concord.org/embeddable.html#interactives/sam/gas-laws/6-number-volume-relationship.json
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