Pressure & Fluids

Arbor Scientific is providing physics and physical science teachers with a collection of student lab activities for the study of Pressure and Fluids. Here you can browse lab activities by title and get teachers notes, student worksheets and a list of equipment and supplies needed for each activity.

Weighing Air

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Arbor Scientific

Using simple equipment, students will pressurize a plastic bottle and measure its change in mass. The activity can be extended to find the density of air for more advanced students.

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Pressure & Temperature

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Arbor Scientific

Using simple equipment, students pressurize a plastic bottle and measure the increase in temperature of the air inside. Then they will release the pressure and observe a rapid decrease in temperature. Charles' Law.

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Gas Laws: The Cloud Machine

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Cary Busby

Students introduce water vapor and smoke into a bottle, pressurize it, and quickly release the pressure. The rapid depressurization decreases the temperature of the water vapor, which encourages it to condense around the smoke particles. A cloud forms.

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Pressure & Fluids

Weighing Air

Pressure & Temperature

Gas Laws: The Cloud Machine