What Can Be Calculated Using Boyle's Law

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1. What is Boyle’s law?
• State the definition of the law in words.
For an ideal gas at constant temperature, pressure and volume are inversely proportional to each other.
• What are the assumptions of Boyle’s law?
Idea gas behavior for a fixed amount of gas and constant temperature.
• Write mathematical equations that represent the law.
P1V1 = P2V2
• What can be calculated using Boyle’s law?
Changes in pressure and volume of gases.
• Using a bicycle tire pump as an example, describe what happens to the gas molecules that behave according to Boyle’s …show more content…

Alpha particles are radioactive helium molecules released from alpha decay, 2 neutrons and 2 protons.
Beta particles could be either positrons or an electron emitted from the breakdown of a neutron.
Gamma Rays are very dangerous and radioactive energy emitted. It consists of high-energy photons.

• Explain how alpha decay works and how it causes transmutations.
In alpha decay an alpha particle is emitted, this causes the atomic mass to be reduced by 4 and the atomic number by two. This is called transmutation since the original element was transformed into another smaller element.

• Explain how beta decay works and how it causes transmutations.
In beta radiation a neutron is transmuted into a proton and electron, as a result of the emission from an electron, beta particle, from the atoms nucleus. Here the mass of the atom does not change, but the atomic number increase by one.
• Compare the transmutations caused by alpha and beta emissions.
In alpha emissions an element is transmuted to another smaller element whose atomic mass is 4 units less and atomic number 2 units more than the original one.
In beta emissions, the mass of the atom does not change, but the atomic number increases by 1

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