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    Balloon Barometer - Science Fair Projects: What You Will Need

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    This document provides instructions for building a simple balloon barometer to measure changes in atmospheric pressure over time. The barometer consists of a jar with a balloon covering the mouth, with a drinking straw attached. As air pressure changes, the position of the straw tip on a graph paper chart attached to a wall will move up or down. By recording the straw tip position daily over several weeks, patterns in air pressure can be correlated with weather conditions, with higher pressure resulting in fair weather and lower pressure bringing clouds and precipitation.

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    This document provides instructions for building a simple balloon barometer to measure changes in atmospheric pressure over time. The barometer consists of a jar with a balloon covering the mouth, with a drinking straw attached. As air pressure changes, the position of the straw tip on a graph paper chart attached to a wall will move up or down. By recording the straw tip position daily over several weeks, patterns in air pressure can be correlated with weather conditions, with higher pressure resulting in fair weather and lower pressure bringing clouds and precipitation.

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    This document provides instructions for building a simple balloon barometer to measure changes in atmospheric pressure over time. The barometer consists of a jar with a balloon covering the mouth, with a drinking straw attached. As air pressure changes, the position of the straw tip on a graph paper chart attached to a wall will move up or down. By recording the straw tip position daily over several weeks, patterns in air pressure can be correlated with weather conditions, with higher pressure resulting in fair weather and lower pressure bringing clouds and precipitation.

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    Balloon Barometer - Science Fair Projects: What You Will Need

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    sudhansu sekhar
    This document provides instructions for building a simple balloon barometer to measure changes in atmospheric pressure over time. The barometer consists of a jar with a balloon covering the mouth, with a drinking straw attached. As air pressure changes, the position of the straw tip on a graph paper chart attached to a wall will move up or down. By recording the straw tip position daily over several weeks, patterns in air pressure can be correlated with weather conditions, with higher pressure resulting in fair weather and lower pressure bringing clouds and precipitation.

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    Balloon Barometer - Science Fair Projects

    Earth's atmosphere surrounds the planet; it is the mixture of gases we breathe as air.
    As weather patterns move around, air particles may “bunch up” over a particular
    area. More particles mean increased atmospheric pressure.
    When pressure is high, it prevents clouds from forming, and the weather is likely to
    be fair. When air pressure is low, clouds form more easily and there is a greater
    chance of rain or snow.

    In this experiment, you will build a simple barometer and measure changes in
    atmospheric pressure.

    What you will need:


     A jar with a wide base and a narrower mouth
     A balloon
     Rubber band
     Rubber cement
     Drinking straw
     Scissors
     Graph paper
     Marking pens

    What to do:
    1. Flatten one end of the drinking straw with your fingers, making about 1 inch of the straw flat.
    Use the scissors to clip the flattened end to a sharp point. It may be helpful to color this
    pointer with a bright color to make it easy to see.
    2. Cut a piece out of balloon and stretch it tightly over the mouth of the jar. Use the rubber band
    to secure this membrane over the mouth of the jar like the top of a drum. The air trapped
    inside will stay at a fairly constant pressure because air particles can neither enter nor escape
    through the balloon covering the mouth of the jar.
    3. Apply a strip of rubber cement along the stretched balloon from the center of the jar mouth to
    the edge. Fix the unflattened end of the drinking straw to the rubber cement so that most of
    the length of the straw, and the pointed end, protrudes past the edge of the jar. The straw
    should stick out at least 6 inches from the edge of the jar.
    4. Divide a piece of graph paper into 7 columns, one for each day of the week. Tape the graph
    paper to a wall in a sheltered outdoor location and position your bottle barometer so that the
    tip of the straw is very close to (but not quite touching) the graph paper. Mark the graph paper
    to show the position of the barometer tip on the appropriate day. In your notebook, record the
    time of day and some notes about the weather conditions.
    5. Move the barometer over to the next column and repeat your observations at the same time of
    day for at least three weeks replacing the graph paper as needed.

    Results
    If the weather has changed during your observational period, you should have
    noticed some corresponding changes in the position of your barometer’s tip. When
    air pressure is high, the air outside of the bottle will be heavier than the air inside of
    the bottle. The balloon will be sucked down into the bottle pushing the opposite end
    with the pointed tip higher on the graph.

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