{"id":404883,"date":"2017-05-05T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=5d060bd2841f62cb38c2645545356378"},"modified":"2017-05-05T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T23:00:00","slug":"discovering-the-gas-laws-and-understanding-the-kinetic-theory-of-gases-with-an-ipad-app-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=404883","title":{"rendered":"Discovering the gas laws and understanding the kinetic theory of gases with an iPad app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carrying out classroom experiments that demonstrate Boyle\u2019s law and Gay-Lussac\u2019s law can be<br \/>\nchallenging. Even if we are able to conduct classroom experiments using pressure gauges and<br \/>\nsyringes, the results of these experiments do little to illuminate the kinetic theory of gases.<br \/>\nHowever, molecular dynamics simulations that run on computers allow us to visualise the behaviour of<br \/>\nindividual particles and to link this behaviour to the bulk properties of the gas e.g. its pressure<br \/>\nand temperature. In this article, I describe how to carry out \u2018computer experiments\u2019 using a<br \/>\ncommercial molecular dynamics iPad app called Atoms in Motion [1]. Using the app, I show how to<br \/>\nobtain data from simulations that demonstrate Boyle\u2019s law and Gay-Lussac\u2019s law, and hence also the<br \/>\ncombined gas law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrying out classroom experiments that demonstrate Boyle\u2019s law and Gay-Lussac\u2019s law can be<br \/>\nchallenging. Even if we are able to conduct classroom experiments using pressure gauges and<br \/>\nsyringes, the results of these experiments do little to illumi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-404883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=404883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}