PHYSICS LAB MANUALS

Boyle's Law

Table I : Details of the equipment and different items required for performing the experiment

Sl. No.

Required item

Utility

1

Mercury Manometer

Description of manometer is given after this table

Components of a Mercury Manometer

a

Stand

Holding the entire system

b

Rubber tubes (Preferably vulcanized)

For flow of mercury from one tube to another

c

Glass tubes

Same as rubber tubes but transparent so that we can take readings

e

Mercury

Its flow is used to measure the effect of pressure and volume

2

Meter scale

Measure the heights


Figure 1: Photograph of the experimental apparatus