This week we discussed the concept of concentration via PhET simulation. We mainly explored the concept of molarity and the factors affecting it.
Link of the simulation: https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/concentration
Link of the recording: Click here
Reflections
- What is the effect of amount of solute and volume on concentration value? How are they related?
- How colour of solution and concentration are related?
- What is the effect of adding or removing solvent/removing solution from beaker on concentration of a solution?
- What will happen on adding excess of solute to a fixed quantity of solvent? What does saturation mean? Why particles settle at the bottom after it is saturated?
- How concentrated a solution can get before it hits saturation?
- On what factors does solubility of different solutes depend?
- What happens when we evaporate the solution completely?
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Acknowledgements
Discussion
Collaborators in video resource creation: Deepak Arora, Hanza George, Mursaleen Shaikh, Ravi Sinha, Swarnava Mitra, Jude Terrence Dsouza
Credits
PhET Interactive Simulations
University of Colorado Boulder