Name: Kurt Allen C.

Tabuzo Section: G10- Descartes (STEM) Date: _____________

PhET Gas Law Simulation Activity

https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/gas-properties/latest/gas-properties_en.html

Procedure: Spend a few minutes testing out the controls to familiarize yourself with how everything works.

Part 1: Boyle’s Law

Purpose: To see how pressure and volume are related to each other (with everything else constant).

Procedure:
1. Hit the reset button.
2. Pump the handle once to add some gas to the container.
3. In the upper right corner under “Constant Parameter”, select “Temperature”. This will make sure that
temperature will not change significantly.
4. We will need a way to measure the volume. Hit the button “Measurement Tools”. Select the “Ruler”
box. A ruler should appear at the top of the screen. The ruler can be moved so you can measure the
size of the box. This will make a good way of measuring the volume. The ruler’s units are in
nanometer (nm) but we will change the units of measurement to Liters (L), example 10 nm = 10 L.

5. You can now adjust the volume of the container by clicking on and moving the handle on the left. Take
8 different measurements of volume and pressure over a large range of volumes without exploding the
container and record your data in Table 1. After each adjustment you need to wait for the readings to
stabilize before recording them.
Table 1: Volume and Pressure of a gas with temperature constant at 300 K and gas in chamber constant at 50
particles.

7.0 8.0 9.0 10.0 11.0 12.0 13.0 14.0

Volume (nm)

Pressure (atm)
8.4 7.3 6.5 5.8 5.3 4.9 4.5 4.2
Volume x
Pressure 58.8 58.4 58.5 58 58.3 58.8 58.5 58.8
(V x P)

Questions:

1. What is the independent variable?

- The independent variable is the volume.

2. What is the dependent variable?

- The dependent variable is the pressure.

3. What variable is held constant?

- The constant variable is the temperature.

4. Make a graph of the Boyle’s Law relationship.

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12

10

0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Pressure (atm)

5. Describe the relationship of your graph. Be sure to include the variables and constants in your answer.
(Your answer should contain the words temperature, volume, and pressure)

- The connection between the pressure and the volume is inversely proportional. The temperature is kept
constant and while the volume increases the pressure decreases.

Part 2. Charles’ Law

Purpose: to determine the relationship between volume and temperature (with everything else constant).

Procedure: You get to design how to test the purpose. Don’t forget to hit the reset button before you begin.
Write down the simulator settings you use below.

Please note: if you want to hold pressure constant, the container must have something in it first. Add particles,
then hold pressure constant. If you hold pressure constant before adding particles in the container (P = 0 atm),
the program will attempt the impossible, by trying to hold the pressure at 0 atm.
Table 2: Volume and temperature of a gas with pressure constant at 5.8 atm and gas in chamber constant at
50 particles.

6.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 10.0 11.0 12.0 13.0

Volume (L)
180 210 240 270 300 330 360 390
Temperature(K)
Volume (L) /
Temperature (K) ( 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03
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Questions:

1. What is the independent variable?

- The independent variable is the temperature.

2. What is the dependent variable?

- The dependent variable is the volume

3. What 2 variables are being held constant?

- The constant variables are pressure and the V/T value.

4. Make a graph of the Charles’ Law relationship

0 100 200 300 400

Temperature (K)
5. Describe the relationship of your graph. Be sure to include the variables and constants in your answer.
(Your answer should contain the words temperature, volume, pressure and moles)

- The connection between the volume and the temperature is directly proportional. The temperature is
increasing when the volume is increasing too while the pressure is being kept constant and the
molecules vibrate or move strongly colliding with each other.

Part 3. Gay-Lussac’s Law

Purpose: to determine the relationship between pressure and temperature (with everything else constant).

Procedure: You get to design how to test the purpose. Don’t forget to hit the reset button before you begin.
Write down the simulator settings you use below.

Table 3: Pressure and temperature of a gas with volume constant at 10 (L) and gas in chamber constant at 50
particles.

1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0

Pressure (atm)
Temperature(K 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400
)
Pressure /
Temperature
0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02
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Questions:

1. What is the independent variable?

- The independent variable is the temperature.

2. What is the dependent variable?

- The dependent variable is the pressure.

3. What 2 variables are being held constant?

- The constant variables are volume and the P/T value.

4. Make a graph of the Gay-Lussac’s Law relationship.

 Temperature (K)

5. Describe the relationship of your graph. Be sure to include the variables and constants in your answer.
(Your answer should contain the words temperature, volume, pressure and moles)

- The connection between the pressure and temperature is directly proportional. When the
temperature is increased the pressure also increases while the pressure is being kept constant the
molecules also vibrate/move strongly colliding with each other.