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Boyle's Law with a Syringe

Squeeze trapped air with weights and show that pressure and volume change in opposite ways.

Grade 11ExperimentScience OlympiadSciencePhysicsChemistryMeasurementAdvanced60 to 90 min6 materialsAdult supervision required

What you'll learn

  • State Boyle's law
  • Calculate pressure from weight and area
  • Plot P against 1/V and read the gradient

Objective

Show that pressure times volume is constant for a fixed amount of gas at constant temperature.

STEM concepts

Gas pressureBoyle's lawAtmospheric pressureParticle model
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