Question

Write a summary paragraph discussing this experiment and the results. Use the following questions and topics to help

Answer 1

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Sample answer: part 1:

What was your hypothesis?

This is what you wanted to prove or study with the experiment. Reading the question I can see that the experiment seems to study the relation between the viscosity of honey and the temperature, so the hypothesis may be something like:

"The viscosity of honey decreases as temperature increases".

According to your data, do you think your hypothesis was correct?

Here you need to see your experimental data, probably, you found that yes, as you increase the temperature the viscosity decreases.

The last thing we need to do here is to summarize difficulties and problems that you had in the experiment, and propose how you could solve them in order to have a better experiment.

Obviously, this depends on how you performed the experiment, but for example, if you saw that the temperature of the honey increased too fast, you could say:

"one problem was that the temperature of the honey increased too fast"

And one way to solve that would be submerging the honey in a water bath so the temperature increases a bit slower.

part 2:

Viscosity depends strongly on temperature, but this relation depends also on the given material.

Generally, we would see that the viscosity decays exponentially as the temperature increases.

So for the first question:

What effect did the temperature have on the viscosity of the honey?

You should have seen that, as the temperature increased, the viscosity decreased.

Now, we need to give some practical examples where knowledge of viscosity is important.

The first one is for cleaning: We know that if we increase the temperature, the viscosity decreases. Thus if we have some object with some viscous thing on it, increasing the temperature will cause it to be easier to clean.

Another example is to store/transport viscous things, for example, honey, it is actually a lot easier to pour honey in bottles if you first heat it a little, so it becomes less viscous.

So there you have two examples where knowing about viscosity (and how it relates to temperature) may be important.

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