Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Penny experiment

The way the experiment worked was like this: u take a penny and put it on a flat surface, with a water dropper and count how many drops it takes to make the water on the penny overflow. that the penny can only handle about 20-25 drops most. The outcome of this is that when ur careful u can get more than 40 water dropplets before it overflows. This experiment shows a good example of cohesion, which means that water sticks to anything close together. This was able to happen is beacause the surface and the water was sticking together very tightly until the water reached its breaking point.

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