Understanding how the temperature, pressure, and density of an air parcel relate to each other is important to understanding the winds. The ideal gas law for air is
Pressure = 2.87*density*temperature
In this activity you will explore the gas law. The value of 2.87 appears so that when you use units for density of kg/m3 and Kelvin for temperature, the pressure units are millibars.
Student Learning Objectives:
Students will:
• explore the relationships between pressure, volume, temperature, and density of an ideal gas (a.k.a. The ideal gas law)
• answer specific questions directed at assessing their understanding of these relationships.
• use the Gas Law’s virtual environment to accurately collect data.
• use a virtual graphing environment to manually graph their data. Assessment of the agreement between data table and graph will be used to assess student graphing skills.
• use graphical analysis of their the data to help answer specific questions related to the ideal Gas Law.