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A-level practical assessment - 8

Investigation of Boyle’s (constant temperature) law and Charles’s (constant pressure) law for a gas.

In this CAP you will investigate the relationship between the volume of a gas and its temperature and estimate a value for absolute zero from your data.

Temperature T/$\units{°C}$ Length of trapped air l/$\units{mm}$
75 44
70 44
65 43
60 42
55 42
50 41
45 40
40 40
35 39
19 37

You can download this data as a csv file here

The second part of the CAP involves an investigation into Boyle’s law. You will trap a sample of air in a gas syringe, and investigate how an applied force changes the volume of the gas.

  • Air pressure $\quantity{1.0\times 10^{5}}{Pa}$

The pressure in the table recorded is the difference between the applied pressure and the air pressure.

Mass m/$\units{kg}$ Force F/$\units{N}$ Volume V/$\units{cm^{3}}$ Pressure p/$\units{kPa}$
1 2 3 mean
0 0 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0 101.00
0.200 1.962 4.1 4.2 4.2 4.2 88.74
0.300 2.943 4.4 4.3 4.5 4.4 82.61
0.400 3.924 4.8 4.8 4.8 4.8 76.48
0.500 4.905 5.0 5.2 5.2 5.1 70.34
0.600 5.886 5.3 5.3 5.6 5.5 64.21
0.700 6.897 5.9 6.1 6.1 6.0 57.89
0.800 7.848 6.5 6.6 6.6 6.6 51.95
0.900 8.829 7.0 7.1 7.1 7.1 45.82
1.000 9.810 7.6 7.6 7.6 7.6 39.69

You can download this data as a csv file here