calling all science dudes!

im doing some work for school, yes u heard right ol mikey is doing work, i just woundered do any of u no about osmosis? ive done my graph and my conclusion, i have to explain the pattern in the graph , i am utterly stuck, any help is appreciated.


its got a Y axis going from 0.4 to minus 0.5
and the X axis going from 0 to 1.0

(grams and molars)

regards

_ mikey

I suppose you've been sleeping through English class as well?

I'd offer help, but I haven't studied any of that stuff in about 30 years.

Wouldn't an explanation just be that the water diffused into the areas of lower concentration to balance it out? I'm having a hard time picturing this graph in my head, but I think you can just tell what your graph means, like explain the movement of the water.

Units will help, 0.4 to -0.5 what? Chickens? Eggs? Vibrating rotary devices? 0 to 1.0 monkeys? Do you mean grams vs. molar? Or something like molar of area 2 vs. time?

Osmosis is a simple concept. It's the diffusion, or travel, of water in a cell - end of story.

The reason for osmosis is as random said. Basically, water, as do several things in science, try to reach a state called "equilibrium." As the name implies, equilibrium is achieved when all sides are equal - in this case, when all sides are in balance. simply put, if there are two areas, one with a high concentration of water and one with a low concentration of water, the water will travel from the high concentration of water to the low concentration of water to balance the two areas out.

Simply put, think of it this way.


| |   | |
|~|   | |
| |   | |
| |   | |
| |   |~|
| |   | |
| | __| |
| _____ |



Let's say we have this retarded shaped tank of water. Which way would water flow if the two sides were to balance out?
The more concentrated side (the side with MORE water) would flow to the side with less concentration (LESS water) and in that manner would even out.

Think of it that way and then try to put it in words.


By the way, once equilibrium is reached, water will flow equally from one side to the other but still will keep in balance and there will be no net gain - that is to say, there will be no overall gain or loss on either side.

Hope we helped at all :D

cheers guys

I suppose you've been sleeping through English class as well? | no infact english is going ok, lol teacher hsnt got bak to me but meh i did the 2500 word essay on macbeth, lol


x axis is sucrose soloution and Y axis is mass of the potato,
my sis helped me alot she got the brains, lol,

thnks for the help guys , oh and supah if my tutor told it to me like tht i would of understood it a hell of alot faster, lol

oh um. . . 1 Q, i asked u yesturday about osmosis, supah n u said u had no clue, i assume u shot the info of the web ? ;) lol

...are you serious? You asked? I dont even remember...

and no, I learned osmosis in biology two years ago...

now i'm gonna be racking my brain trying to figure out when you asked me. :P