Gas Lab Interactive

Gas Law

The Animated Gas Lab is a series of computer animations that demonstrate all the possible combinations of the ideal gas law or equation of state. Gases have various properties which we can observe with our senses, including the gas pressure, temperature, mass, and volume which contains the gas. Careful, scientific observation has determined that these variables are related to one another and the values of these properties determine the state of the gas. Scientifically, we can fix any two of the four primary properties and study the nature of the relationship between the other two by varying one and observing the variation of the other. The variations are demonstrated using computer graphics in the animated gas lab.

Animated Gas Lab

Because of the highly graphical nature of the computer animations at the Animated Gas Lab, we are unable to provide an equivalent presentation for non-graphical browsers. However, all the information demonstrated on these pages is available in a non-graphical form as follows:

• Equation of State (Ideal Gas)
• Pressure
• Temperature
• Mass
• Specific Volume
• Gas Properties Definitions
• Air Properties Definitions
• Boyle’s Law
• Charles and Gay-Lussac’s Law
• Kinetic Theory of Gases

Please note: the simulation below is best viewed on a desktop computer. It may take a few minutes for the simulation to load.