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Inflating a balloon involves adding air, increasing the volume inside the balloon. According to Boyle's Law, pressure and volume are inversely proportional at constant temperature. When air is blown into the balloon, the volume increases, causing the pressure inside the balloon to rise. This apparent violation occurs because the process of inflating the balloon involves changing the amount of gas inside, which affects its pressure and volume relationship.

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Why does a balloon expand until the pressure of the gas inside balloon balances the pressure of the gas outside?

In a closed container where air or other gases tend to occupy space, there is the presence of air pressure that does an upward force. This force exerted inside the balloon able the balloon to fly, but there is an opposing force outside it, which is also air pressures. Hence, the air pressure inside the balloon must be greater than the air pressure outside it, for the balloon to be lifted up. I'm not sure this guy ^ answered your question or not. Actually, it's completely wrong. If you ARE talking about helium balloons, as he seemed to be, then Helium is a lighter gas than the combined gases in the air. Just like mixing olive oil and water, denser objects sink, and lighter objects float. Therefore, a helium balloon will float upwards until it pops. If you WEREN'T talking about helium balloons, which I don't think you were, then you're like me. I've been doing some research to prove my theory. While hard to find, it seems to be pretty common knowledge in science (and yet, for some reason, my teacher was wrong about it - hence me doing outside research) that a balloon has a greater air pressure inside the wall than that outside. Air pressure, technically, is a measurement of the amount of collisions against a surface at any time. In the case of balloon, it's supposed to measure how many particles at any in any given time space collide with the wall of the balloon and bounce off. However, since this is near impossible to measure, air pressure seems to be easier described as density. The similarity comes from the idea that when there are more molecules in the same space, more of them will be heading towards a collision course with the wall. The first concept of air pressure within a balloon that you will need to know is that air pressures "try" to even out. With all the bouncing against the balloon wall (both in and out) there will be a certain amount of expansion/contraction. As air pressure itself is a description of the total forces against an object, each of these forces, on the outside of the balloon, causes the balloon to contract a tiny bit, while the inside forces cause the balloon to expand. With this knowledge, one would immediately assume the a balloon with high air pressure inside would expand based on the high amount of internal forces, and vice versa. This would make the inside and outside air pressures equal. However, the part I am looking for, that my science teacher doesn't agree with, is the fact that we are, after all, talking about balloons. Balloons have a certain elasticity to them that some won't take into account. When you stretch a balloon, you're filling it with potential energy. When you let it go, the potential energy is turned into kinetic energy and the balloon snaps back into its original position (though perhaps a little stretched out). When you fill up a balloon with air, the balloon is being stretched. While the balloon is constantly releasing kinetic energy in an attempt to contract, it is also being pushed back out by the constant bouncing of the internal air molecules. Because I'm still researching this, I'm not an expert, but basically, the internal air has to exert force not only to counteract the external air to keep the air pressures "even," but it also has to counteract the natural contraction of the balloon. Therefore, it requires more air pressure (more force) than the air outside the balloon wall. ________________________________________________________________ the gas pressure inside an inflated balloon always greater than the air pressure outside because as the atoms and molecules move about they hit the wall of the balloons which increases their speed so the gas pressure is higher then outside. The air pressure outside the wall is less because atoms and molecules can easily move about. When most of the atoms and molecules escape from the balloon the air becomes same outside and inside. ________________________________________________________________ Okay, no, that ^ just doesn't make any sense. Hitting the balloon wall does not increase speed. Also, the air outside the balloon is generally confined too. It is bouncing off the balloon, all of the objects in it's area, possibly walls and a ceiling... And, according to your theory, if air is let out, what's left would still have a greater pressure, because it's still hitting the walls...not that this 'theory' makes any sense...


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