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Boyle, Charles and Cans... Oh, How I love the pressure!

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Arbor Scientific

You may have tried the can crushing pressure demo, you may have even tried it with a 55 gallon drum, but have you tried an entire tanker truck? In the December CoolStuff Newsletter...

This post was posted in CoolStuff Newsletters, Pressure & Fluids and was tagged with cans, air pressure, gas laws
Can a Helium Balloon Defy Physics?

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Dr. Joel Bryan

Watch this cool video and it almost seems like this balloon’s actions are counter-intuitive to everything we know about motion and inertia. Let Professor Joel Bryan from Ball State University explain what is really going on.

This post was posted in CoolStuff Newsletters, Pressure & Fluids and was tagged with gas laws, helium balloon, inertia
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.

This post was posted in Labs, Pressure & Fluids and was tagged with pressure, gas laws, cloud machine, lab 9

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