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9 – Gas Pressure & Volume Student: _________________________________________

1. If you squash a balloon, the pressure inside it rises. How does the kinetic theory
explain this?
2. A balloon contains 6 m3 of helium at a pressure of 100 kPa. As the balloon rises
through the atmosphere, the pressure falls and the balloon expands. Assuming that the
temperature does not change, what is the volume of the balloon when the pressure has
fallen to
a. 50 kPa b. 40kPa?
3. The readings below are for a fixed mass of gas at constant temperature:

Pressure/atm 5.0 4.0 2.0 1.0 0.5 0.4

Volume/cm3 4 5 10 20 40 50

a. How can you tell that the gas obeys Boyle's law?
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b. Use a calculator to work out values for . Plot a graph of pressure against
volume
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and describe its shape.
volume