Maxwell Boltzmann Distribution Pogil Now

That night, the spores rest in their warm chamber. Carlos looks at the empty sugar crystal. A few heroic, fast-moving spores reached it and fed the whole colony.

Berta writes in her data log: The Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution explains why no two molecules are the same, why reactions need heat, and why a few outliers change everything. maxwell boltzmann distribution pogil

Arnie throws up his tiny spore hands. "So heat doesn't make all of them faster. It makes more of them moderately faster, and it creates more of those crazy fast ones in the tail." That night, the spores rest in their warm chamber

Berta is already poking the Data Slate. "The slate says their speeds aren't the same, Arnie. Look." She pulls up a graph. The horizontal axis is labeled . The vertical axis is labeled Number of Spores . Berta writes in her data log: The Maxwell-Boltzmann

Dina calculates. "The total area under the tail… it's nearly ten times larger. But the temperature only went up by 10%!"

Question on the slate: “Compare the area under the cold curve to the area under the hot curve. What do you notice?”