"Sharon and Steve need to design a data chart in order to record the measurements they made during an experiment. They had a tank of oxygen gas in which they increased the pressure from .5 to 2.5 atmospheres of pressure in increments of .25 atmospheres. They were to record the temperature every .25 atmospheres in degrees Celsius. They added a column so that they could later convert the temperature to degrees Kelvin."
I got as far as making the column for the increased pressure, but I don’t really understand how to find this data solely from the paragraph in the quotes. Any help is appreciated, as i’m totally stumped.
Sorry, i’ll make it a bit clearer.
I’m supposed to make a data table showing how many degrees in celsius and kelvin each .25 atmospheres of pressure in an oxygen tank become.
The thing is that I don’t really understand how to find it out.
So, you need the ideal gas law:
PV = nRT
You are recording P vs T. R is a constant but it’s unclear how you are achieving changes in pressure – you must either reduce the volume or add more oxygen (or both).
Anyway, let’s simplify and assume (for argument purposes) that both V and n are held constant.
The relationship between P and T (with everything else held constant) is usually expressed as
P(1)/T(1) = P(2)/T(2)
(Of course, T must be in degrees K for this relationship to be exact.)
Now, when you plot the P vs T curve, you can tell whether the equation, above, is followed or whether yo need to account for increase number of moles (to increase pressure) or to decrease the volume (again, to increase pressure)
Good luck