PHYSICS 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ideal Gas, Dime (United States Coin), Lab Report
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The purpose of this lab is to take the different ideas that were introduced in your prep and work on merging them together to understand the free expansion of an ideal gas. In addition you will be exposed to a few nice spreadsheet features and functions including. 1this lab is based heavily on the work: mark b. schneider, activity-based statistical physics for first. Year physics students, aps forum on education newsletter, spring-2005. Part 1 - free compression with four molecules. We know that free compression does not violate conservation of energy. However, we never see all of the molecules in a room on one side. In order to explore why, we are now going to think about a room with only four molecules in it. At your table you should have a box with four coins inside. A heads means that the molecule is on the left-hand side of the room while a tails is on the right-hand side.
