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The learning goals for tonight's activity include:
- Be able to describe the behavior of a system of one type of particle as either gaseous, liquid or solid
- Be able to manipulate particle properties and/or the potential energy function for their interaction to change
the 'state' of the particles (gas --> liquid --> solid) without changing particle size or the temperature.
Observe the particles in the simulation below. Describe how the particles behave and whether this behavior
is more like that of a gas, liquid or solid. Explain why using complete sentences with specific details.
The particles react more like the gas phase then the liquid or solid phases.
The reason for this is simply because in a solid state the particles would vibrate in place and hardly move, in the liquid phase they would move but they wouldn't be as energetic.
Make a change(s) that cause the molecules to behave more like a liquid without changing the particle
diameter or the temperature of the system. Describe with complete sentences and specific details
why the behavior of the system after your changes is more like a liquid.
Adding more atoms did nothing to make the state act like a liquid or a gas. Changing the mass of the atoms makes their movements slower and more sluggish.
Lowering the Potential energy to about 0.33 eV it forms the liquid state. The reason for this is because the atoms stick more together while still having some atoms move about in it's conformed space.
Repeat the above for a solid.
While leaving the mass the same and lowering the eV to the lowest it can go it caused the atoms to stick together like in the solid state.
In the solid state the molecules stick but still vibrate in place because there are so many interactions going on between atoms tht it just caused the atoms to stick.
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