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Golf Ball Lab

Golf Ball Lab. What is the minimum amount of salt needed to make a golf ball float?. Determine the minimum amount of salt needed to make a golf ball float in 100 mL water. Weigh out 50.0 g of NaCl. Add 5 g additions of salt to the water, dissolve, check to see if ball floats.

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Golf Ball Lab

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  1. Golf Ball Lab What is the minimum amount of salt needed to make a golf ball float?

  2. Determine the minimum amount of salt needed to make a golf ball float in 100 mL water. Weigh out 50.0 g of NaCl Add 5 g additions of salt to the water, dissolve, check to see if ball floats. Continue with this method of successive additions until ball floats. Re-weigh remaining salt and subtract this amount from 50.0 g to determine the amount of salt needed. Finally, repeat…begin 5 g less salt and add 1 g increments to narrow range.

  3. Theorize, but Verify …We must trust in nothing but facts. These are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought in every instance to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment. It is especially necessary to guard against the extravagances of imagination which incline to step beyond the bounds of truth. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, 1743 - 1794 Jaffe, New World of Chemistry, 1955, page 1

  4. Theory Guides, Laboratory Decides! Density of water = 1.0 g/mL Need to determine density of a golf ball. mass =______ g (electronic balance) volume = ______ mL (water displacement method) or formula? Density of golf ball cannot be made to decrease. Therefore, you need to increase the density of the water by dissolving salt into the water. Limiting Factor: accurate determination of volume of golf ball Solubility Curve of salt in water. Water has a limit to how much salt can be dissolved. Saturation – point at which the solution is full and cannot hold anymore solute.

  5. Packing of NaCl Ions Electron Microscope Photograph of NaCl

  6. Na+ ions Water molecules Cl- ions Dissolving of Salt in Water NaCl(s) + H2O  Na+(aq) + Cl-(aq)

  7. + H H O - - + - + Dissolving of NaCl Na+ + + hydrated ions - + - Cl- Timberlake, Chemistry 7th Edition, page 287

  8. Interstitial spaces (holes in water where substances dissolve) 100 mL Interstitial Spaces and Particle Size Parking at school if you arrive at 7:00 AM = _____ Easy Parking at school if you arrive at 7:45 AM = _____ Hard More available spaces if you arrive early. Salt dissolves quicker when you begin because there are more available spaces to 'park'. Analogy: Compact car is easier to park than SUV. Theory: Crush salt to make particles smaller (increase surface area) …it will dissolve more rapidly. STIR

  9. Mass volume Density = density of water= 1.00 g/mL 100 mL of water = 100 g You determine the density of golf ball to be 1.18 g/mL Add 19 g salt to 100 g water = 119 g salt + water Volume remains100 mL (saltwater) 119 g 100 mL or Density (saltwater) = 1.19 g/mL If golf ball doesn’t float, add 2 g additions of salt until it floats. Add 3.0 mL water,stir…float Add 3.0 mL water,stir…float Add 3.0 mL water,stir…sink

  10. Goals and Objectives: a.  Given materials and problem, formulate and test a hypothesis to determine if a golf ball can float in salt water. b.  Collect accurate data and compare own data to other class data.  Evaluate own results. Investigation Procedure: a.  Design an experiment to accurately determine how dense salt water must be in order for a golf ball to float.  Use metric units.  Be sure to control as many variables as possible. b.  Write down the procedure that you and your partner(s) are going to use prior to lab day.  Record any researched facts that may be useful in knowing before conducting your experiment. c.  Carefully run your experiment, make observations and record your measurements in a data table.  Use grams and milliliters in your measurements.  Include a calculation  column in your data table. d.  Critique your own procedure, discuss and compare your process with another group, then modify your own steps as needed. e.  Repeat your experiment to check for accuracy, if time allows.

  11. Discussion Questions for Understanding: a.  How did you determine the density of your golf ball?b.  Why does a golf ball normally sink to the bottom of a pond at the golf course?c.  What variables were difficult or impossible for you to control during this experiment?     How much salt can be dissolved in 100 mL of water?  (saturated)          effect of temperature on solubility     Surface area of salt may affect rate of dissolving (may need to crush salt finely)d.  What variables may have changed as time went on that could have affected the outcome of your results?e.  Did you improve the accuracy of your results after conferring with another group?f.  Describe your sources of error.  (Human error and faulty equipment are unacceptable answers)

  12. Materials:     electronic balance      100 mL & 500 mL graduated cylinder          mortar / pestle     glass stirring rod     golf ball     salt (Kosher, iodized table salt, table salt)          250 mL beaker  Extension: a.  Research the manufacturing of golf balls to determine why they sink in pond water. b.  Research to determine which body of salt water in the world would float a golf ball the highest. Lab Report :  (10 - 12 point font two page maximum length)       Background / problem      Hypothesis (if...then)       Procedure (protocol)        Data (table, graph)       Analysis         Conclusions / Future directions (limitations)              Sample calculations - appendixDo not use references to yourself or others in your writing of a lab report (except for citing past research). OR Poster (25 words or less) A picture is worth 1000 words!

  13. KI NaNO3 gases solids KNO3 HCl NH4Cl NH3 KCl KClO3 SO2 Solubility Table Solubility vs. Temperature for Solids 140 130 120 110 100 90 80 • shows the dependence • of solubility on temperature 70 Solubility (grams of solute/100 g H2O) 60 50 40 30 NaCl 20 10 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 LeMay Jr, Beall, Robblee, Brower, Chemistry Connections to Our Changing World , 1996, page 517

  14. Teacher Notes Some golf balls will NOT float in a saturated solution of salt water. Their mass is too great. The maximum density of salt water is ~1.36 g/mL. The solution is saturated. The limiting factor is determining an accurate volume for the golf ball. My students use a 250 mL graduated cylinder. Anything smaller and the golf ball won’t fit. Each line is 5 mL (students often think it goes by 10 mL increments).

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