Conduction Experiment by Ashley Nguyen [Student FVHS]

Question #1

17huynhml267 — 2014-04-03 20:57:16 UTC

What is a conduction? What is heat defined in science?

Conduction is the process of transmitting heat or electricity through a substance when there is a difference in temperature or electrical potential. Heat in science is defined as energy transferred into an object

Question #2

17huynhml267 — 2014-04-03 21:08:32 UTC

Explain how conduction is demonstrated by the experiment that you are doing with the candle, wire, and the wax.

The heat from the candle is transferred through the wire to melt the wax from the bottom of the wire.

Question #3

17huynhml267 — 2014-04-03 21:13:47 UTC

Which of the wires conducted heat the best (melted the ball of wax first?

The thickest wire melted the ball of wax first.

Question #4

17huynhml267 — 2014-04-03 21:14:13 UTC

Explain with at least 2 sentences why that wire is the best conductor of heat.

The thickest wire is the best conductor of heat because of the amount of mass it contains. The more mass the wire has, the more there is to help have the ball of wax melt off.

Wax Melting

17huynhml267 — 2014-04-05 05:17:34 UTC

Our setup

17hernandezaa18 — 2014-04-05 05:35:11 UTC

fatinh1 — 2014-04-05 05:41:00 UTC

Question #5

fatinh1 — 2014-04-05 05:41:04 UTC

Which of the ESLR's was addressed in this activity? Explain with a couple of sentences.

One of the ESLR's that we have used in this experiment is being responsible

members of society. We used this ESLR by being responsible for completing this project and

getting to our goal. Another one of our ELSR's we have used is critical thinking. We used

this ESLR by applying knowledge to solve the problems we had.