• Water tower,

•
• Syringes connected together by tube
with coloured water inside
•
• Set of 2x100ml syringes together with
tubing
• Set of 1x50ml and 1x100ml syringe
together with tubing
How does Fred Flintstone stop his car?
Would it work well?
 Pressure in liquids
Lesson Objectives

5 Describe how pressure

Keywords
acts in a liquid

6 Explain how buoyancy can

be affected by pressure

7 Explore additional ideas in

physics such as surface
tension.
 Water Pressure!
Why are dams thicker at the bottom?
 Practical...
There are ... Experiments set up around
the room. What happens. Why?
1. Water diver – squeeze the bottle.

2. Cup and tights

3. Raisins and lemonade

4. Lemons and water

 Working it out
Water diver.

As you squeeze the water bottle, the

pressure of the water compresses the
air in the ‘diver.’ This means there is
less buoyancy, and so the diver sinks...
Release it and it returns!
 Tomato ketchup diver
As you squeeze the water bottle, the
pressure of the water compresses the
air in the ‘diver.’ This means there is
less buoyancy, and so the diver sinks...
Release it and it returns!
 Cup and tights
The molecules of water are attracted to
each other. This is called surface
tension.

Because of this the water cannot seep

through the tiny gaps in the fabric, as it
increases it’s water tension…

The same as the matches etc.

 Raisins and lemonade
The bubbles form on the rough surface of
the raisins.

As the bubbles form the raisins will float

to the surface of the lemonade and then
sink as the bubbles escape.
 Lemon and water
The unpeeled lemon floats.

There is air inside the skin and makes it

less dense like armbands. It increases
it’s buoyancy!

Buoyancy works because it means the

object is lighter than the volume of the
water displaced....
 Bubbles
In bubbles the surface tension of water
is just about strong enough to hold
bubbles together
 Starter
• What were the experiments we carried
out last time?

• How could you summarise an explanation

for each one?
 Water fun
• Draw a poster which explains what
happens in each practical experiment
you did.
• Describe how each works using
scientific knowledge and give
instructions for the person doing the
practical.
• You should also make sure you have an
annotated particle diagram for each
one.
 Surface Tension
• Surface tension is where the surface of
a liquid in contact with gas, acts like a
thin elastic sheet.

• Intermolecular forces, pull the liquid

particles together.

• Along the surface, the particles are

pulled toward the rest of the liquid, as
shown in the picture to the right.