Solar Energy

Climate Chaos

Title	Solar Energy
Aim	To see what color attracts the sun's heat
Hypothesis	I think that the silver and black will attract the sun’s heat more than the other color.
Materials	1x sheet of paper 1x white Styrofoam cup Clear cup with black plastic wrapped around Black paper 1x sheet of tin foil Tin foil to wrap around a Styrofoam cup (or get a silver cup) 1x Heat lamp 1x Thermometer ¼ of water for each cup Timer
Steps	collect the materials set up the first cup by putting a piece of white paper on the table and putting the white cup on the sheet of paper set up the black cup by getting a piece of black plastic putting a clear plastic cup in the middle and putting a piece of black plastic around the cup set up the tin foil cup by putting a piece of tin foil on the table then putting a tin foil cup in the middle of the tin foil set up the heat lamp get the thermometer from your teacher/parent get water from the teacher/parent and put it in each cup just around half a cup in each start recording  once you have heated it up for 15 minutes put the thermometer in the water for 1 minute after 1 minute in the water take it out and leave it out of water for 1 minute do the same for each one once you have done all the 15 minute ones do it for the 30 minute one and do the same thing with the thermometer as you did with the 15 minute do the same thing with the 45 minute one with the thermometer
Data/Findings	It got a lot more hot as the timer went off each time and over time I started to wonder what it’s like in outdoor pools.
Conclusion	At the start the water was 16'c  and then the water started rising as you can see on the tally. My group and I all think that the reason why the water temperature rise went high is because we were using a heat lamp and we were sitting under a heat pump. In hot places like Australia they do the complete opposite instead of painting their house black because they know they will get really hot they paint their house white.