Experiment No.

4
Boyle’s Law

Objective: At the end of this experiment, the student should be able to state the

relationship of the volume of a confined gas and the pressure applied to it, with

temperature constant.

Materials & Methods:

 (1) Large Syringe- Used as a container where the balloon is placed

 Plunger- Used as tool to either increase or decrease pressure inside the syringe
to create a result.
 Water Balloons - Used as a subject for the laboratory test.
 Gloves
 Goggles

Results and Observations:

First Test

- Based from the video, we observed that once you placed your finger over the

opening at the bottom of the large syringe and pull the plunger downward, the

balloon decreases its size.

Second Test

- Based from the video, we observed that once you placed your finger over the

opening at the bottom of the large syringe and pull the plunger upward, the
 balloon increases its size. When you release your finger at the bottom of the

large syringe, the size of the balloon goes back to its normal size.

Discussion:

First Test
As the balloon is increasing the pressure inside the syringe, the volume decreases
because of the pressure added which makes the air molecules to hold tight with each
other. According to Brian M. (2014), if there is a decrease in volume, there is less space
for molecules to move and therefore they collide more often, increasing the pressure.
One of the reasons why the balloon gets back to its original volume is because the air
molecules can be able to move again and they get out of collision.

Second Test

The second test of this experiment clearly states that when you close the opening of the

syringe and pull the plunger back it clearly demonstrates that you decrease the

pressure of the air inside the syringe and its volume increases (Smith, 2016).

Conclusion:

Boyle's law was strongly established in our experiment. Increasing volume decreases

pressure, whereas decreasing volume increases pressure. We discovered this

correlation. As a result, we may conclude that the relationship between pressure and

volume is nearly linear. Adding a temperature adjustment to the experiment would

undoubtedly influence pressure, but we didn't do it to illustrate how temperature and

pressure are linked. As a whole, this experiment confirmed the inverse relationship

between pressure and volume for gases. The pressure decreases as the volume

increases when the temperature remains constant.

Question:

1. Describe the volume of the gas inside the balloon when the plunger was
pushed and pulled inside the syringe? Why did it happened?

- When you pushed the plunger of the syringe downward the volume of the balloon

decreases and when you pulled the plunger of the syringe upward, the volume of

the balloon increases. It happened because it clearly demonstrates Boyle’s Law

which there is a relationship and connection between the pressure and volume of

the gases if the temperature is constant.

2. What is the relationship between the volume and pressure of the same amount
of gas, if the temperature is constant?

- The relationship between the volume and pressure of the same amount of gas, if

the temperature is constant is inversely proportional since when you decrease

the pressure of the air inside the syringe, its volume increases and when you

increase the pressure of the air inside the syringe, its volume decrease so it

shows that there is an inverse relationship.