Experimental Terms
Results that are directly measured during an experiment.
What is experimental value?
Water boils on a stove.
What is convection?
Mixture 1: 36 degrees C, 120 mL
Mixture 2: 72 degrees C, 120 mL
What is 54 degrees C?
Mixture 1: 17 degrees C, 8 mL
Mixture 2: 19 degrees C, 7 mL
What is 17.93 degrees C?
In the ice experiment, ice cubes left out on a piece of paper.
What is control group?
Written before the experiment, it is the experimenter's prediction for the experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
The glue sticks melt from the hot glue gun.
What is conduction?
Mixture 1: 11 degrees C, 30 mL
Mixture 2: 20 degrees C, 15 mL
What is 14 degrees C?
Mixture 1: 19 degrees C, 11 mL
Mixture 2: 37 degrees C, 22 mL
What is 31 degrees C?
In the ice experiment, the students put the ice cubes in water.
What is experimental group?
A group that does not experience the change you are testing for.
What is control group?
Microwave heats up food.
What is radiation?
Mixture 1: 30 degrees C, 20 mL
Mixture 2: 20 degrees C, 30 mL
What is 24 degrees C?
Mixture 1: 36 degrees C, 29 mL
Mixture 2: 31 degrees C, 43 mL
What is 33.01 degrees C?
In the roller coaster experiment, calculations performed ignoring friction.
What is theoretical values?
Percent error is the difference between the results from a real world experiment and the _________.
What is theoretical values?
In the ice experiment, the ice slowly melts.
What is conduction?
Mixture 1: 23 degrees C, 14 mL
Mixture 2: 77 degrees C, 21 mL
What is 55.4 degrees C?
Mixture 1: 77 degrees C, 13 mL
Mixture 2: 33 degrees C, 16 mL
What is 52.72 degrees C?
In the water mixtures experiment, the temperatures were found to be hotter than expected due to the air temperature.
What is experimental value?
What is the group that experiences the changes that are being tested?
Ocean water is nearly always a similar temperature.
What is convection?
Mixture 1: 13 degrees C, 12 mL
Mixture 2: 37 degrees C, 54 mL
What is 32.64 degrees C?
Mixture 1: 71 degrees C, 88 mL
Mixture 2: 93 degrees C, 137 mL
What is 84.40 degrees C?
In the ice experiment, the aluminum foil was a(n) _________.
What is conductor?