THE PROPERTIES OF AIR.

Although air is invisible it is a substance which fills up a

space. You know that air rushing along in the form of
wind can exert a large force on your body, and if you
wave a large sheet of card board about you will find that
the air resists its movement. We can show that air has
weight by means of the following experiment.
Take a deflated inner tube from a bicycle tire. Weigh it on
a pair of balances, inflate the inner tube and weigh it
again. The inner tube is slightly heavier than it was when
there was no air in it. A cubic meter of air weighs little
more than 1/2 kg, but there is so much air that the total
weight of the atmosphere which surround the earth
amounts to many million tones.
Although the atmosphere exerts very great pressure, we
do not feel the pressure weighing down on us. This is
because air does not only pressure in one direction.
Besides, there is blood inside our body exerts the same
pressure as the outside.

1. Find the four properties of air. Write in complete sentence for each.

2. Explain why we do not feel the weight or the pressure of the atmosphere ?

3. How do you proof the that air has weight ?

Note:

Do this assignment in pair and submit it tomorrow at 10 oclock.