PROBLEM: Can air pressure cause movement?
HYPOTHESIS:
PROCEDURE: Follow
the instructions below and record your observations.
EXPERIMENT 1. Blowing out a Candle
Materials: candle, match, bottle with small
opening or Erlenmeyer flask
1. Light a candle.
2. Blow air into a bottle with a small opening.
Use your thumb to capture the air inside.
3. Turn the small opening toward the flame and
release the air. Record what happens.
4. Relight the candle, hold the bottle between you
and the flame and blow. Describe what happens to the movement of the
air.
EXPERIMENT 2. Egg in a Bottle
Materials: hard boiled egg, bottle with opening
just small enough where egg cannot get through
1. Use a peeled boiled egg, a bottle with an
opening just large enough to prevent the egg from falling through, a
small piece of paper and a match.
2. Set fire to a small piece of paper.
3. Place the paper into the bottle, and quickly
place the egg on the top of the bottle. Then try to get the egg out.
4. Record what happens. Can you explain why?
Experiment 3. The Floating Ball
Materials: straw, ping pong ball
1. Put straw in mouth and tip back of
your head to make a vertical direction of the straw.
2. Put a ping pong ball a few cm
above the straw while you blow with a steady, but forceful blow. You may
have to experiment to make sure the stream of air is vertical.
3. Describe what happens.
CONCLUSION:
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