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Balloons & Buoyancy
Experiment with a helium balloon, a hot air balloon, or a rigid sphere filled with different gases. Discover what makes some balloons float and others sink.
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Teaching Resources
Main Topics
- Gas
- Buoyancy
Sample Learning Goals
- Determine what causes the the balloon, rigid sphere, and helium balloon to rise up or fall down in the box.
- Predict how changing a variable among P, V, T, and number influences the motion of the balloons.
Tips for Teachers
The teacher's guide (pdf) contains tips created by the PhET team.
Teaching Ideas
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Using PhET in High School Chemistry- all my activities in pdf
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Trish Loeblein | HS UG-Intro |
Lab Demo CQs HW |
10/27/11 |
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Balloons and Buoyancy : How do gases in different containers behave in gases fluids?
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Patricia Loeblein | UG-Intro HS |
Lab CQs |
4/25/11 |
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Visualization and Visual Illusions SIM Homework
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Kathy Perkins, Carl Wieman | UG-Intro | HW | 1/9/11 |
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Static Magnetic and Electric unit (Inquiry Based)
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Trish Loeblein | HS | Lab Demo CQs HW |
8/7/11 |
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Algebra-based Physics Semester one lessons, clicker questions, and schedule in pdf (Inquiry Based)
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Trish Loeblein | HS UG-Intro |
CQs Demo Lab HW |
8/13/11 |
| Gas Relationships and Buoyancy | Patrick Foley | HS | CQs | 1/24/12 |
| Science Department Chair | Brad Palmer | HS | Lab | 5/12/11 |
| High School Exploratory Lab for Balloons and Static Electricity | paul devoe | HS | Lab | 2/28/10 |
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Gas Properties and Balloons & Buoyancy Simulations Homework
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Kathy Perkins, Carl Wieman | UG-Intro HS |
HW | 1/8/11 |
| Buoyancy and Balloons | Adrian Carmichael | HS | Lab | 4/7/08 |
You can submit your own ideas and activities.
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Software Requirements
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Microsoft Windows
XP/Vista/7 Sun Java 1.5.0_15 or later |
OS 10.5 or later
Sun Java 1.5.0_19 or later |
Sun Java 1.5.0_15 or later |
Credits
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