Effusion In Basketball

Does the temperature outside affect how fast molecules move inside objects? Charles Law helps us understand how molecules move in different temperatures. It states that increasing the temperature of a constant pressure volume of gas causes individual gas molecules to move faster (Andrew Staroscik Staroscik 9/19/16), and the volume is proportional to the absolute temperature of a gas at (Todd Helmenstine 10/16/16). Therefore, as the temperature increases, so does the speed of the molecules, and when the temperature is doubled so is its volume. As molecules start to move faster they will obviously hit the object, or the wall more often, creating pressure. Newton's Third Law of motion says that both the molecule and the wall will experience a
We will explore how these molecules are getting through the basketball. Effusion is when small gaseous particles have high kinetic energy that allows them to move through small holes. However, the mean free path must be larger the hole itself. The mean free path is the average distance traveled by a particle between collisions with other particles (¨Boundless¨ 10/13/16). If it does not meet these requirements, then the gas molecules will just keep moving back and forth through the opening. Effusion tells how gas molecules move through the small opening of the basketball, leading to an increase in its air pressure; this similar to the Kinetic Molecular
For example, on the men’s professional level, or the NBA, the basketball has a circumference varying between 75-76 cm. Whereas for the women’s, the basketball’s circumference is between 72-74 cm. However, the exterior and interior of a basketball is the same regardless of what level it is played on, or what of type brand name the ball is. The exterior of a basketball is made of synthetic rubber, rubber, composition, or leather (“How products are made” 10/11/16). Every basketball is made out of one of these 4 coverings. The interior also contains something that every basketballs needs, a bladder, and carcass. The bladder is made of butyl rubber, and the carcass consists of threads of nylon or polyester (“How products are made” 10/11/16). When the distributors are finished making the basketball as whole, they test, inspect, and put them in packages . Overall, these two qualities are in every single basketball that are