We just did the Osmosis and Diffusion lab in Biology. My teacher wants us to use water potential (and its equation) to explain the results....how do I use the water potential equation?

Answer 1

Since this is not my area of expertise, I searched Google under the key words "water potential equation" to get these possible sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_potential
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http://4e.plantphys.net/article.php?ch=3&id=27
http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/48/2/333.pdf
http://books.google.com/books?id=W2UcOAa0kb0C&pg=PA51&lpg=PA51&dq=water+potential+equation&source=web&ots=oFQGsM5QXt&sig=rfQAa_VyZcJgChqG-3kiO3w_GWc

There are more sites available. In the future, you can find the information you desire more quickly, if you use appropriate key words to do your own search.

I hope this helps. Thanks for asking.