Experiment Setup
Relative Intensity: 1.00
Predicted Rate: 0.00 bubbles/min
Results
| # | Distance (cm) | Intensity | Duration (s) | Bubbles | Bubbles/30s |
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How It Works
This simulation demonstrates how light intensity affects the rate of photosynthesis in aquatic plants like pondweed. Light intensity decreases with the square of the distance from the lamp. The oxygen bubbles are a for the photosynthetic rate.
A proxy is not the actual thing itself (photosynthesis is a chemical reaction) but a measurable factor related to the variable we want to study.The model used: I = (10/distance)^2; bubble production rate follows a saturating relationship rate = (Pmax * I)/(I + Ks). Randomness is applied to bubble timing assuming a Poisson process.