Lesson B4–5



PRESSURE-VOLUME

RELATIONSHIPS: BOYLE’S GAS LAW

Student Learning Objectives. Instruction in this lesson should result in students achieving the following objectives:

1 Describe the relationship of pressure and volume as it relates to gases.

2 Explain Boyle’s Law.

3 Explain Charles’ Law.

4 Create a mathematical expression describing Boyle’s Law, Charles’ Law and the Combined Gas Law.

5 Discuss how knowledge of Boyle’s Law and Charles’ Law are applied to do productive work using pressure, volume, and temperature relationships.

Anticipated Problem: What is the relationship between pressure and volume as it relates to gases?

I. Matter, including atmospheric gases, consists of tiny particles known as molecules. Pressure is an application of forces in direct contact. The space an object, such as a gas, occupies is known as volume.

A. An inverse relationship exists between pressure and volume as they apply to gases. As

volume of a gas decreases, the pressure the gas molecules exert on the walls of the container increases.

Anticipated Problem: What is Boyle’s Law?

II. An English scientist named Robert Boyle discovered in 1662 that the pressure a gas exerts could be increased by decreasing its volume while holding its temperature constant. Gases exert pressure when their molecules collide with the walls of a container such as the cylinder of an engine.

A. When the volume of a gas is decreased, the gas molecules contact the container sides

more frequently increasing the pressure on the gaseous molecules.

B. The inverse relationships of: 1) increasing volume causing decreasing pressure and 2)

decreasing volume causing increasing pressure were discovered by Robert Boyle and

expressed in Boyle’s Law.

Anticipated Problem: What is Charles’ Law?

III. French scientist Jacques Charles showed that raising the temperature of a gas would tend to increase the volume of the gas, if the pressure of the gas remained constant. Raising the temperature of a gas causes the molecules in the gas to move faster. Lowering the temperature causes the molecules to slow down in movement.

A. The heat that is created upon ignition causes the gases in the engine cylinder to expand

rapidly. Charles’ Law states an increase in the temperature of a gas results in an increase

in the pressure of the gas. This results in expansion of gas molecules within the cylinder

and the subsequent downward movement of the piston.

Anticipated Problem: What mathematical formulas are used to calculate changes in pressure, volume, and temperature of gases involving Boyle’s Law, Charles’ Law, and the Combined Gas Law?

IV. The formula for Boyle’s Law demonstrates the inverse relationship that can be expressed by the following: P1×V1=P2×V2 where P1 is the original pressure of a gas, V1 is the original volume of a gas, P2 is the new pressure of a gas, and V2 is the new volume of a gas. Mathematically, if the volume of a gas is reduced by one-half, the pressure on the gas is doubled.

A. Charles’ Law demonstrates a direct relationship between the temperature of a gas and its pressure. The formula is expressed as P1/P2 = T1/T2 where P1 is the original pressure

on a gas, P2 is the new pressure on a gas, T1 is the original temperature of a gas, and T2 is the new temperature of a gas. If the temperature of a gas doubled, the pressure on the gas will also double because of the direct proportional relationship.

B. In the Combined Gas Law, Boyle’s, Charles’, and GayLusaac’s Laws can be brought

together to more realistically show that a sample of gas will be under the influence of all

three variables of pressure, temperature, and volume simultaneously. The formula can

be expressed as P1 × V1/ 1 = P2 × V2/T2.

Anticipated Problem: How can knowledge of Boyle’s and Charles’ Gas Laws be applied to do productive work using air volume/pressure/temperature relationships?

V. The most common example of pressure / volume relationships in agriculture mechanics is the internal combustion engine. The engine must follow four strokes of operation in order to produce mechanical energy from chemical energy. The four strokes are intake, compression, power, and exhaust.

A. Compression is the process of compressing the air/fuel mixture in an internal combustion engine. Gasoline and Diesel engines differ in how much compression is necessary to ignite the air/fuel mixture. The ratio between the volume of the cylinder when the piston is at bottom of the cylinder compared to the volume of the cylinder when the piston is at the top of the cylinder is known as the compression ratio.

B. Gasoline engines have a lower compression ratio because a spark plug is present to

ignite the air/fuel mixture toward the completion of the compression stroke. Diesel

engines do not contain spark plugs so the compression has to be increased substantially

to ignite the air/fuel mixture on its own. Diesel engines usually have a compression ratio

of 16 to 1 or higher while gasoline engines have a compression ratio of approximately 8

to 1.

C. Volumetric efficiency for an engine is determined by how well the engine can draw the air / fuel mixture into the cylinder. The efficiency decreases when the engine operates at high speed because the piston travels too fast to properly draw the mixture into the cylinder prior to the compression stroke.

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PRESSURE-VOLUME RELATIONSHIPS:

BOYLE’S GAS LAW

Part One: Matching

Instructions: Match the word with the correct definition.

a. Intake d. Compression g. Exhaust

b. Boyle’s Law e. Horsepower h. 16:1

c. Charles’ law f. Power i. 8:1

_______1. The stroke that involves the ignition of the air/fuel mixture in a four-stroke engine.

_______2. Explains the direct relationship between increasing temperature and increasing pressure of a gas.

_______3. The stroke that involves downward movement of a position drawing the air/fuel mixture into the cylinder in a four-stroke engine.

_______4. The most common compression ratio of a gasoline engine.

_______5. The stroke that involves the upward movement of the piston to reduce the volume of air/fuel mixture in the cylinder prior to ignition in a four-stroke engine.

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Part Two: Fill-in-the-Blank

Instructions: Complete the following statements.

1. According to ________ __________, when the volume of a gas decreases, the pressure of the gas increases.

2. The volume of air in the cylinder of an engine before compression compared to the volume of air in the cylinder after compression is known as the __________ _____.

3. If the volume of a gas is reduced by one-fourth, the pressure of the same gas will increase by _____ times.

4. __________ is the measure of the average kinetic energy or velocity of the molecules of a substance.

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Part Three: Multiple Choice

Instructions: Write the letter of the correct answer.

_______1. Which of the following terms describes the space occupied by the molecules?

a. Pressure

b. Volume

c. Compression

d. Continuity

_______2. Which of the following terms describes the force of molecules colliding with the container?

a. Pressure

b. Volume

c. Compression

d. Continuity

_______3. All matter is made up of tiny particles known as __________.

a. DNA

b. Nanophones

c. BTU

d. Molecules

_ Part Four: Short Answer

Instructions: Answer the following questions.

1. What is the relationship between pressure and volume of a gas?

2. What effect does temperature have on a gaseous substance under pressure?

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Assessment

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TS–A

Technical Supplement

PRESSURE-VOLUME

RELATIONSHIPS: BOYLE’S GAS LAW

1. What is the relationship between gas pressures and volumetric change?

Volumetric efficiency measures how well an engine “breathes” by drawing the airfuel

mixture into the cylinder. Volumetric efficiency is reduced at high engine

speeds because the piston is moving down so rapidly that it travels downward too far

before the air-fuel mixture flows into the cylinder. Factors affecting volumetric efficiency

include: atmospheric pressure, air temperature, air cleaner condition, carburetor

design, intake manifold design, size and number of intake valves, valve timing,

and camshaft design. Larger or a greater number of intake valves result in a high efficiency.

Cams shaped to allow a greater duration or open size for intake valves result

in improvement in efficiency. A larger air horn carburetor and a larger and straighter

path intake manifold design results in better and faster intake for a high volumetric

efficiency.

2. What is Boyle’s Gas Law?

Boyle’s Gas Law states that as the volume of a container of gas decreases, the pressure

of the gas will increase assuming that there is no change in temperature.

Increasing volume causes a drop in pressure. The pressure of a gas depends upon

how often its particles strike the container’s walls. The smaller the space, the more

often the particles will strike the walls of the container. If the space increases, the

pressure will decrease. In other words, pressure increases proportionately as volume

decreases.

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3. How can knowledge of Boyle’s Gas Law be applied to do productive work

using air/volume relationships?

Pressure/volume relationships are important to understand when measuring engine

performance, especially in an internal combustion engine. The pressure increases

inside the cylinder as the volume decreases due to the upward movement of the piston.

This increased pressure increases the temperature, which makes the air/fuel

mixture easier to ignite. This can be explained in Boyle’s law. The heat that is created

upon ignition causes the gases to expand rapidly in the enclosed cylinder. This

can be explained by Charles’ law. These expanding gases push in all directions and

cause the piston to move.

When a force is applied through a distance, work is accomplished. The pushing or

pulling of one body on another is force. Work can be accomplished in an engine

when the force from the ignition of the air/fuel mixture causes the piston to move

downward.

As the piston reaches bottom dead center (BDC), a port or hole is opened allowing

the burned gases to escape. Remember that bodies in motion tend to stay in motion.

This is referred to as inertia. Inertia causes the piston, which is attached to the crankshaft,

to begin moving upward. During the intake stroke new air-fuel mixture

moves into the cylinder.

The relationship between the total cylinder volume when the piston is at BDC and

the volume remaining when the piston is at top dead center (TDC) is known as the

compression ratio. For example, if at BDC a cylinder’s volume is six cubic inches

and at TDC it is one cubic inch, then the compression ratio of the engine is six to

one. Small gasoline engines have compression ratios of five or six to one. Diesel

engines in tractors usually have a compression ratio of sixteen to one. Diesel engines

in Chevy trucks run twenty-eight to one and Ford trucks run twenty-three to one.

Some motorcycles have a compression ratio of nine or ten to one.

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