Penny Lab Essay

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Physical Science Penny Lab Purpose The purpose of this lab is to see how the placement of the drops of green solution will affect how much the penny can hold up the green solution without dropping any solution on the table. Hypothesis I think that when we drop the green solution on the middle of the penny, the penny will be able to support more green solution because the green solution will have more room to spread out. Materials -25ml of mysterious green solution -Paper towel -A 150ml beaker -A penny -A pipette -A ruler Procedure 1) Place 25ml of the green mysterious solution into the beaker. 2) Squeeze the pipette in to the solution for three seconds and let go. 3) Place the penny tails up 4) Place the pipette over the letter “c” in “one cent” 5) Place the pipette 5 inches above the penny 6) Begin to slowly squeeze the solution out of the pipette, over the letter “c” while counting the numbers of drops until the solution spills out from the surface of the penny. 7) Record data of how many drops of green mysterious solution could be held and the observations made. 8) When the solution spills out of the penny, dry off the penny. 9) Repeat steps 2-9 but over the Lincoln icon mark in the very center of the penny (be sure to use the same exact penny) The controlled conditions for this experiment included; a clean table surface, same penny, same person, and same pipette. The manipulated variable is where the person holding the pipette dropped the green mysterious solution on the “c” of “one cent” on the back or the very middle of the penny. The responding variable is amount of green mysterious solution that the penny can hold with out spilling it. Amount of Substance Penny can support Trial 1 Trial 2 Trial 3 Average Over the “c” 20 Drops 14 Drops 21 Drops 18.33 Drops Center of Penny 25 Drops 26 Drops 23 Drops 24.66 Drops

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