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Equilibration in two communicating balloons



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Two toy balloons are connected by a pipe having a valve. The balloons are filled with air to different sizes. The connecting pipe has junctions that allow the air pressures to be measured in the two balloons. More…
In a separate experiment, the pressure of a fixed quantity of air was measured for different volumes (the air was compressed slowly). More…


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Balloons_Equilibration.xls
Air_PV_Relation.xls
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DESCRIPTION OF EXPERIMENT
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A POSSIBLE PATH THROUGH THE INVESTIGATION…
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