Key terms
This is the name for the opposite of an explosion.
What is an implosion?
This is the definition of Charles's Law.
What is: when temperature of a gas increases, its volume increases (and vice versa)?
These are the tools needed to measure and calculate the density of a cube-shaped object.
What are a ruler and a balance/scale? (Calculator is optional :-) )
This is what the tanker car was cleaned with.
What is steam?
What is Lewis's second name / middle name?
What is David?
These are two different terms for energy of a substance due to its particles being in motion.
What are thermal energy and heat?
This is the definition of Boyle's Law.
What is: When the volume of a gas decreases, its pressure increases (and vice versa)?
This is the formula for pressure.
What is Pressure = Force / Area
This is the unit scientists use to measure temperature.
What is Kelvin?
In this year, Costa Rica gained independence.
What is 1821?
This is the definition for a gas.
What is a state of matter with no fixed volume or shape?
This is an example of Charles's Law in the real world.
Answers could include:
-Balloon in the freezer decreases in volume
-Volume of the air in tires increases on a hot day/when riding your bike more
-A basketball is more inflated on a hot day than a cold day
If an object has an area of 8 cm2 and a force of 24 Newtons, how much pressure does it exert?
What is 3 N/cm2? (Force / Area = 24 / 8 = 3)
This is the minimum temperature of the steam inside tanker car when it was cleaned.
What is 100 degrees C? (373 K) This is the boiling point of water/when water becomes steam.
What species of turtle is Joaquín?
What is a Guadalupe turtle?
This is the difference between mass and weight.
What is: mass is the amount of matter in an object, while weight is the effect of gravity on an object?
This is an example of a direct relationship that is NOT Charles's Law.
Answers can be anything where increasing one value increases the other. Examples:
-Number of hours worked and amount you are paid
-Number of books and weight of a bookshelf
-Number of dogs and amount of joy
This is the unit we use to measure force.
What is Newtons?
This is what happens at 0 degrees Kelvin.
Absolute zero: particles stop moving.
In what year was MFS founded?
What is 1951?
This is the difference between temperature and heat.
What is:
Temperature is the AVERAGE thermal energy per gram, while heat (or thermal energy) is the total amount of energy contained in a substance due to its particles being in motion.
This is an example of an inverse relationship that is NOT Boyle's law.
Can be anything where one thing increasing causes the other thing to decrease. Examples:
-Speed vs. time taken to get somewhere
-Volume of a certain mass vs. density (the more mass is spread out, the lower the object's density)
-Number of dogs vs. amount of money
This is the unit we use to measure pressure.
What are N/cm2?
This is a succinct but complete explanation of why the tanker car imploded.
Steam entered the car HOT, which had a high pressure compared with the outside air.
Over time, the steam got cooler. This decreased the internal pressure of the car compared with the outside air (Charles's Law).
The higher pressure of the outside air crushed the car because the internal pressure could not resist it.
This is the youngest colegio teacher at MFS.
Who is Taylor?