Question

4. Priya notices thet the pressure inside one of her car tyres is too low. She pumps up the tyre to a higher pressure. a) What happens to the number of particles in the car tyre? b) What happens to the distance between particles as pressure increase? c) One of the tyres gets a puncture(small hole) . What happens to the pressure inside the tyre?

Answer 1

a) the number of particles increases

b) average distance between them should decrease

c) the number of particles decreases, the pressure must also decrease

Step-by-step explanation:

a) When the girl pumps to increase the pressure inside the tire she introduces more particles. Therefore the number of particles increases

b) as the volume of the tire does not change and there are more particles, the average distance between them should decrease

c) When a hole is opened, some of the particles inside the tire come out, so as the number of particles decreases, the pressure must also decrease