Air Pressure and Temperature: Fire Syringe (Kari Kelly)

Author

Kari Kelly

Principle(s) Illustrated

1. KMT

2. Pressure-Temperature Relationship

3. Gay-Lussac's Law

Standards

PS3-A

Energy is a quantitative property of a system that depends on the motion and interactions of matter and radiation within that system. That there is a single quantity called energy is due to the fact that a system’s total energy is conserved, even as, within the system, energy is continually transferred from one object to another and between its various possible forms.

PS3-A

At the macroscopic scale, energy manifests itself in multiple ways, such as in motion, sound, light, and thermal energy.

Questioning Script

Prior knowledge & experience:

An increase in temperature will cause an increase in pressure.

Root question:

Can an increase in pressure cause an increase in temperature?

Target response:

Temperature and pressure are directly related and causal in both directions.

Common Misconceptions:

Changes in temperature cause pressure changes, but changes in pressure don't cause temperature changes.

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References

Gay-Lussac's Law