Claculation of Water Potential from Experimental Data
1. The solute potential can be calculated using the following formula:
2. Knowing the solute potential of the solution and knowing that the pressure potential of the solution is zero, allows you to calculate the water potential of the solution. The water potential will be equal to the solute potential of the solution.
Conclucsion/Analysis:
Calculation the water potential will be useful when predicting the movement of water when it comes to different solutions of varying concentrations. It was observed from the potato cores that water will always move from areas of high concentration to areas of low concentration. The water of the potato cores left the potato cores and went instead into the sucrose solution. This trend was followed as we observed the percent change in the potato cores have a direct relationship with the molarity of the sucrose solution, meaning that as the sucrose solution molarity increased, so did the percent change of the potatoe cores.
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