AVOGADRO'S LAW

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LIFE FACTS:

• His full name is Count Lorenzo Amedeo Carlo Avogadro
• At the age of 20 he was awarded a doctorate in canon law
• In 1803 he published his first scientific paper
• At age 30 he started teaching highschool math and physics
• In 1820 he became a professor at the university of Turin

LIFE FACTS CONTINUED:

• In 1811 Avogadro published a paper in Journal de Physique
• In 1815 he published a paper about the masses of atoms, their compounds and their gas densities.
• Between 1837-1841 he published four volumes looking in detail at the physics of matter
• He was married with six sons

THE GAS LAW:

• published it when he was working as a physics teacher at the College of Vercelli-1811
• equal volumes of all gases at the same temperature and pressure contain equal numbers of molecules
• first scientist to realize that elements could exist as molecules rather than as individual atoms

HOW THIS GAS LAW IS USED:

• Throwing an aerosol can in a fire
• Inflating a basketball
• Flat tire vs. Inflated tire
• Lings as they expand with air
• Helium balloon vs. Air balloon

EXAMPLE

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VARIABLES + units:

• P=Pressure
• V=volume
• N= number of mole of gas
• T=temperature

SOURCES:

• http://www.famousscientists.org/amedeo-avogadro/
• http://socratic.org/questions/how-is-avogadro-s-law-used-in-everyday-life