Answer 1:
Temperature does in fact have an impact on a
balloon. As long as the gas is ideal, the gas
inside the balloon will follow this relationship:
(Pressure)*(Volume)=(Number of Molecules)*(a
constant)*(Temperature).
This relationship is known as the ideal gas
law. Now, let's say we increase the
temperature of the balloon. In order to see the
effects, we must hold all other variables constant
(except the one we want to measure). In this case,
let's keep the pressure constant (for a balloon,
the number of molecules will always be constant
since no gas molecules are leaving the balloon at
any time.) If the pressure is constant and the
temperature is increased, we see that to keep the
equation true, the volume must also increase a
proportional amount. On the other hand, if the
volume was held constant (this would correspond to
fitting the balloon in a container so it could not
get bigger) then we would see the pressure against
the walls of the balloon increase. Again, this
would increase a proportional amount to how much
temperature was increased.
If you look at the molecules within the
balloon, our result makes sense. Adding
temperature to the balloon would force the gas to
have more energy. More energy would mean the
molecules within the balloon would have to start
moving faster. This increase in speed of the
molecules would force the molecules to bounce off
the walls of the balloon even harder. The result
would then be an added pressure or volume to the
balloon system.
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