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Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Paper Towels on Trial essays

Paper Towels on Trial essays Paper Towels On Trial Have you ever wondered what the best brand of paper towels is? Or what "the best" actually means? Well, our group adventured out to find "the best" paper towel! We tested seven different brands of paper towels. We did 3 different controlled experiments to collect data. The data will help to determine the best paper towel out of the seven brands we tested. The brands we tested were: Bounty, Scott, Viva, Home Best, Strong n' Thirsty, Good Day, and Green Forest. The materials we used for our controlled experiments included: a tub(to hold water), a dropper(for the absorbency test), a cup, seven brands of paper towels, a few flasks, a triple beam balance scale, water, our chart(to record the data), our hands(for the absorbancy test), and our groups table. Here are the tests, and our steps we used to obtain the data. 1. Two people hold the paper towel tightly about 6 inches above the table. 2. One person cups their hands underneath the center of the paper towel. 3. One person drops the water onto the paper towel with the dropper. 4. The person dropping water counts how many drops it takes before it drops throught the paper towels. 1. One person soaks a paper towel in water. 2. Another person times, with a watch, the time it takes for the paper towel to rip. 3. One person rubs the paper towel back and forth on the table with their fingertips until it rips. 1. Set the water tub on the table with a little bit of water in it. 2. Two people hold a soaked paper towel tightly over the tub. 3. One person gently sets a flask on top of the paper towel. They fill the flask with water until the paper towel breaks. 4. When it breaks, someone goes and weighs the flask, and we record the weight for the strength test. There was more than one brand that won in the absorbancy test. They were Sc ...

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