HOW HOT
IS THAT COLOR?

Worksheet

Jennifer Heidema, Jim Little, Rick Ramirez,
Nancy Topoozian

1. Describe any differences between your predicted outcome and the actual outcome of your experiment.
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2. What patterns did you notice between the color of a can and the rate that the temperature changed?
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3. List the variables in the experiment you performed. Which variables did you control? Which was the dependent and which the independent variable?
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4. Describe the mathematical function you found that allows you to predict the heating rate of water in a can as a function of the can's color.
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5. What are your conclusions?
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