Chapter 5.1 Announcements:

- Remember: Homework 3.1 is due Thursday, Feb. 25, in class

- Remember: Homework 3.3 is due Tuesday, March 2, in class

Homework 5.1: due Thursday, March 4, in class (Calli Nguyen) long homework start early

Exercises: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18

Problems: 1, 2, 3,4, 6, 7, 8, 9

- All grades will continue to be posted at: http://www.wfu.edu/~gutholdm/Physics110/phy110.htm

- Listed by last four digits of student ID

- We’ll now cover only parts of each chapter (tentative outline):

- 5.1 Balloons

- 7.1 Woodstoves

- 9.1 Clocks

- 9.2 Musical Instruments

- 10.3 Flashlights

- 11.1 Household Magnets & Electric Motor

- 11.2 Electric Power Distribution

- 15.1. Optics, cameras, lenses

- 16.1 Nuclear Weapons

Chapter 5.1: Balloons(long Chapter section with many concepts

- helium balloons- imploding can- Magdeburg spheres- expanding foam- particles in a box- submerging metal block- weighing things in water- diet coke and real coke

- Buoyancy- Archimedes’ principle- air and air pressure- density- pressure- temperature- earth’s atmosphere- helium balloons - hot air balloons- ideal gas law

Demos and Objects Concepts

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A helium balloon has mass, yet it rises up in the air. Is there a real force pushing up on the helium balloon?

A)YesB)NoC)A definite maybe

Does it ever stop rising, and why?

Air and Air Pressure

What is air?

• Air is a gas– Consists of individual atoms and molecules– Particles kept separate by their thermal energy– Particles bounce around in free fall– Air does have a mass – Air does have weight– 1 kg of air can have many different shapes– Air is compressible

Air and Air Pressure

• Air has pressure– Air particles bounce around

– The higher the temperature, the more they bounce

– Air particles exerts forces on container walls

– Average force is proportional to surface area

– Average force per unit area is called “pressure”

A

F

area

forceP :Pressure This formula is true for many situations.

Unit of pressure:

1N/m2 = 1 Pascal = 1 Pa

Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623, in Clermont-Ferrand, France – August 19, 1662, in Paris) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators, the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli

Examples:

You weigh 800 N, you fell like wearing high heels (area 1 cm2 = 0.0001 m2) and you step on somebody’s foot. What pressure does that person feel?

A tank weighs 400,000 N and rolls around on a 10 m2 chain. What is the pressure on the ground?

Pressure Imbalances

• Balanced pressure exerts no overall force– Forces on opposite sides of object cancel

• Unbalanced pressure exerts an overall force– Forces on opposites sides of object don’t cancel– Forces push object toward lower pressure

In 1654, Otto von Guericke gave the citizens of Magdeburg a remarkable lesson in the force of the atmospheric pressure. He machined two hollow hemispheres, twenty inches in diameter (0.5m) so they fit snuggly into a sealed sphere. He pumped the air out of it. Then he put sixteen horses, eight on each side, to the task of pulling the halves apart. The horses hard a very hard time pulling them apart. If the atmospheric pressure is 1.0·105 Pa, what force would be required to pull the spheres apart?

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A. 5000 NB. 10,000 NC. 20,000 N

D. 50,000 NE. 100,000 N

You purchase a bottle of water in an airplane, drink half of it and then seal it again.

When you arrive at the airport, the bottle is all dented in.

Explain.

Air and Density

• Air has density– Air particles have mass– Each volume of air has a certain amount of mass– Average mass per unit volume is called “density”

What is density?

V

m

volume

mass :density Units: kg/m3

The more packed the particles are the higher the density of the object.

1 kg of water has a volume of one liter (0.001 m3). What is it’s density?

Gold: 19,300 kg/m3

Iron: 7,860 kg/m3

Water: ______ kg/m3

Air: 1.2 kg/m3

Helium: 0.18 kg/m3

Density:

A. 0.001 kg/m3

B. 1 kg/m3

C. 10 kg/m3

D. 1000 kg/m3

E. 10,000 kg/m3

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Air Pressure and Density

• Air pressure is proportional to:– Density (in this case particle density)

• Denser particles hit surface more often

• Denser air more pressure

Which box has the higher pressure gas?

Which box has the higher density gas?

A B

So:

Air pressure in a box depends on:

- Particle density

(the denser the higher the pressure)

- Temperature

(the hotter the more bouncing the higher the pressure.

temperturedensity pressure

Ideal Gas Law

Pressure = Boltzmann constant · Particle density · Absolute temperature

– Only applies perfectly to independent particles

– Real particles are not completely independent

Tkp particleB kB … Boltzmann constant k = 1.381·10-23 Pa·m3/(particle·K)

particle … particle density (how many particles per m3)

T … temperature in KelvinSee problem 1 on homework

An Aside About Temperature

• Air has temperature– Air particles have thermal kinetic energy– Average thermal kinetic energy is proportional

to absolute temperature

• SI absolute temperature scale: kelvins or K– 0 K is absolute zero—no thermal energy left– 1 K is equivalent to 1 degree Celsius– room temperature ~ 293 K = 20°C = 68F– 0 K = - 273.15°C = - 459.67F

Temperature Scales

Reliable and quantifiable way of measuring how “hot” an

object is.

How to convert from one temperature scale to another:

FTT

FTT

TT

F

CF

C

67.4595

9

325

9

15.273

• Where TC, TF, T is the temperature in Celsius (centigrade), Fahrenheit and Kelvin

• Kelvin is the proper SI unit

Homework, Problem 1:The particle density of standard atmospheric air at 273.15 K (0°C, 32F) is 2.687·1025 particles/m3. Using the ideal gas law, calculate the pressure of this air.

The Atmosphere

•Air pressure pushes on the air itself•Air near the ground supports air overhead

–Air pressure is highest near the ground–Air density is highest near the ground

•Key observations:–Air pressure decreases with altitude–A balloon feels more force at bottom than at top–Force imbalance yields an upward buoyant force

Diameter of earth: 12,700 km = 12,700,000m

Pressure Imbalances

• Balanced pressure exerts no overall force– Forces on opposite sides of balloon cancel.

• Unbalanced pressure exerts an overall force– Forces on top and bottom of balloon don’t cancel. – Forces push balloon toward lower pressure.

A submerged object seems to weigh less.Where do the forces come from?

Buoyant force (in liquids and in gases)

Archimedes’ Principle:

An object partially or wholly immersed in a fluid is acted upon by an upward buoyant force equal to the weight of the fluid it displaces.

An object that has a higher density than the fluid it is in, will sink (slower than free fall).

An object that has a lower density than the fluid it is in, will rise.

A iron block that has a volume of 1 m3 is immersed in water. The density of iron is 7860 kg/m3 and the density of water is 1000 kg/m3.

a) What is the weight of the iron block?

b) What is the weight of the displaced water?

c) What is the buoyant force?

d) What is the “weight” of the immersed iron block? (What force is required to hold the block still in water?)

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cA. 1000 NcB. 7860 NcC. 8860 NcD. 9800 NcE. 10,800 N

dA. 1000 NdB. 9800 NdC. 67,200 NdD. 77,000 NdE. 86,800 N

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Floating and sinking in air

P = k part.

P = k part.

Hot air contains fewer molecules than cold air (at the same pressure, or a box with hole, or an elastic box).

Thus, hot air has a smaller density than cold air!!!

Hot air will rise in cold air!!

Hot air has lower density than cold air.

Will a balloon rise for ever??

Hot-Air Balloon in Air

• A rubber, hot-air-filled balloon– contains fewer air particles than if it were cold– weighs less than the cold air it displaces– experiences an upward net force in cold air– floats in cold air– has an average density less than that of cold air

Helium vs. Air

• Replacing air particles with helium atoms– reduces the gas’s density

• helium atoms have less mass than air particles

A helium balloon has a volume of 4000 m3.

The density of air is 1.2 kg/m3 and the density of helium is 0.18 kg/m3.

a) What is the weight of the displaced air?

b) What is the buoyant force on the balloon?

c) What is the weight of the helium in the balloon?

d) How much weight could the balloon carry up?

dA. 7,000 N dB. 40,000 NdC. 47,000 NdD. 54,000 NdE. None of the above

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