Equilibrium Virtual Lab
Temperature and Equilibrium Virtual Lab
Change is influenced by many different factors in many different situations. If you imagine the 400,000 gallons of water in a stream at the top of a hill, you can picture that they will flow down the hill in order to reach equilibrium. But what if the temperature outside is -40 degrees Fahrenheit? How might this change the movement of the water molecules down the hill?
This virtual lab will allow you to explore how temperature changes affect two linked systems. The demonstration uses red and blue balls to represent molecules. You will use the sliders in this activity to play around with speeding up and slowing down change within a system. Items that should be recorded for submission are written in italics.
Go to http://chemconnections.org/Java/molecules/index.html [->0]
Click once on the demonstration window once it loads - this …show more content…
*Record this result as "Mixing at 999K"
*In a paragraph, describe your results and explain the effect temperature appears to have on the equilibrium of mixing.
*Based on your virtual lab experiment, compare what would happen if you put a spoonful of honey into a cup of 200 degree Fahrenheit tea versus placing a spoonful of honey into an identical cup filled with 45 degree Fahrenheit tea.
*If you opened up a container of very stinky Limburger cheese at one end of an empty large outdoor parking lot with a group of shoppers about 50 feet away. Would you be able to enjoy eating your snack longer without offending the shoppers in the summer or the winter? Explain.
Observe the time it took for the red and blue molecules to mix at 999K.
Before clicking on the quiz link on the left to complete the quiz to receive credit for this lab, think about what you have observed in this virtual lab including the effect temperature appears to have on the equilibrium of
Change is influenced by many different factors in many different situations. If you imagine the 400,000 gallons of water in a stream at the top of a hill, you can picture that they will flow down the hill in order to reach equilibrium. But what if the temperature outside is -40 degrees Fahrenheit? How might this change the movement of the water molecules down the hill?
This virtual lab will allow you to explore how temperature changes affect two linked systems. The demonstration uses red and blue balls to represent molecules. You will use the sliders in this activity to play around with speeding up and slowing down change within a system. Items that should be recorded for submission are written in italics.
Go to http://chemconnections.org/Java/molecules/index.html [->0]
Click once on the demonstration window once it loads - this …show more content…
*Record this result as "Mixing at 999K"
*In a paragraph, describe your results and explain the effect temperature appears to have on the equilibrium of mixing.
*Based on your virtual lab experiment, compare what would happen if you put a spoonful of honey into a cup of 200 degree Fahrenheit tea versus placing a spoonful of honey into an identical cup filled with 45 degree Fahrenheit tea.
*If you opened up a container of very stinky Limburger cheese at one end of an empty large outdoor parking lot with a group of shoppers about 50 feet away. Would you be able to enjoy eating your snack longer without offending the shoppers in the summer or the winter? Explain.
Observe the time it took for the red and blue molecules to mix at 999K.
Before clicking on the quiz link on the left to complete the quiz to receive credit for this lab, think about what you have observed in this virtual lab including the effect temperature appears to have on the equilibrium of