Investigating the relationship between pressure and

volume:
Method:
1. Firstly, we set up the apparatus, connecting the pressure-measuring device to the
syringe and to the computer that then logs the pressure data using Spark software.
2. Then, we squeezed the gas in the syringe into a specific volume (20cm
3
to start), and
noted the pressure exerted from the computer.
3. We repeated this process; incrementally decreasing the volume the air is squeezed to,
plotting our data points on a table.
4. We then represented our data graphically to investigate any graphical relationships.

Results:

Volume (cm
3
) Pressure (Pa) Pressure Volume 1/volume
19.5 102.2 1992.9 0.051282051
18.5 108 1998 0.054054054
17.5 113.7 1989.75 0.057142857
16.5 120.2 1983.3 0.060606061
15.5 127.7 1979.35 0.064516129
14.5 135 1957.5 0.068965517
13.5 144.8 1954.8 0.074074074
12.5 154.6 1932.5 0.08
11.5 169 1943.5 0.086956522
10.5 182.4 1915.2 0.095238095
9.5 201.4 1913.3 0.105263158
8.5 220 1870 0.117647059
7.5 250 1875 0.133333333
6.5 276.7 1798.55 0.153846154
5.5 317 1743.5 0.181818182
4.5 385 1732.5 0.222222222





Graphs:





Conclusion:
Pressure and volume are inversely proportional if the temperature and the numbers of
gas particles are kept constant. As the volume halves, in my experiment the pressure
roughly doubles. Therefore the mathematical relationship has to be:
P 1/V
OR HENCE (With K referring to constant:
P = K (1/V)

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Volume
Pressure vs Volume
y = 0.0006x - 0.0131
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Pressure
Pressure vs 1/Volume
This K is dependant on the temperature, as increasing temperature increases the kinetic
energy the molecules have, which in turn means that they exert more pressure on their
container as part of P = F/A. As a result, the temperature dictates the gradient of the
graph of Pressure vs. 1/Volume.

Aditya Goel