Diana Flatsoussis
Review of Literature
Insulate - to cover, line, or separate with a material that prevents or reduces the passage, transfer, or leakage of heat, electricity, or sound (Insulate ,2015, pg.1). In this experiment insulation is the main topic. Insulation is used in many things: a house, a refrigerator, walls, clothing, and types of drinking cups. Installation can be made of materials like styrofoam, plastic, and fiberglass. These can be used to keep things hot or cold. Insulation is most commonly for heat and maintaining heat energy. This experiment tests the insulation of several cups and how they keep liquids hot. Each cup used in the experiment has some insulation. The cups have different amounts of insulation. Each of these cups are generally used as insulators for many liquids.
Insulation slows the process of heat leaving an object. Most insulation contains lots of air spaces. The air spaces slow the flow of heat leaving the object because the heat takes longer to travel through the air spaces. Insulation is a material or substance that is used to stop heat, electricity, or sound from going into or out of something (Insulation, 2015, pg. 1). Insulation is commonly thought of in
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It is polystyrene which is petroleum. Petroleum is a very common product. It is a non-renewable resource that is polluting the environment. Petroleum is an oily, thick, flammable, usually dark-colored liquid that is a form of bitumen or a mixture of various hydrocarbons, occurring naturally in various parts of the world and commonly obtained by drilling: used in a natural or refined state as fuel, or separated by distillation into gasoline, naphtha, benzene, kerosene, paraffin, etc. (Petroleum, 2015, pg. 1). Styrofoam is not only used simply to keep a cup of coffee warm, but also as spray foam in houses for
Look at those frosty flakes in the sky! Well, it's winter! In winter, you can do all kinds of fun family things.Winter is the best season because of all of the fun things you can do.
One of the polymers used is polyvinylpyrrolidine, which is also used to glue the layers of wood in plywood together. An non-water soluble polymer called polydimethylsiloxane is added to make the hold last a bit longer (the polyvinylpyrrolidine is water soluble).
Nasty.Freezing.Awful.Snow is not my favorite thing to wake up to on a winter morning.A lot of people like snow because they have a lot of fun with it like building a snowman,having snowball fights,and make a snow angles.Many places get snow throughout the year.Some places get more snow than others.
One of the more beautiful things about nature is that it is constantly changing and hold so many mysteries that we don’t understand. Each day brings new beauties and scenes that weren’t there yesterday. Having grown up on the east coast might have caused me to have a greater appreciation for all of the seasons, but one of my favorite things about season is being able to witness the changing over form one to the next. How each plant knows that the change is coming and they all magically start to prepare themselves for the new setting they’re going to create. The romantics capture the mysteries of nature in some of the most beautiful poetry. They delve deep into the possible meanings of what nature could be attempting to tell us or simple what they find beautiful about what they see in nature. One piece that stuck with me this quarter was The Snow Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Winter has always been one of my favorite season since I was a little girl and have always anxiously awaited that first snow fall, dreaming of a white Christmas that year. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s The Snow Storm brought back nostalgic memories of snow filled days in my childhood and made me appreciate having actually experienced snow in real life and the beauty
In my project, I will do an experiment to find out which material makes ice melt the fastest while the temperature of the room will remain the same. This research is important because if you are short on ice and you need it you can figure out which material will make your ice last the longest if you have no insulation. For example, if you were in the desert and had a cooler you would know what to put in your cooler to make your ice last the longest. I will be testing with three different materials: steel, wood, and fabric. My hypothesis is if the steel retains the ice's cold temperature then it will take the longest for the ice to melt. My goal is to help cooler companies improve their coolers by outlining them with whatever material helps
Insulator – Do not allow electric charges to pass through them. Electrons in the atoms and molecules move very slightly to one side of the object but are not released.
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Many people don't know about winterguard, some don't know about Colorguard. These sports are both amazing and graceful in their own way, whether it be tossing a double on a rifle or spinning the six foot flag. Many people would be surprised on how different these two sports are. This paper will discuss the differences, and similarities, between these two sports of the arts.
Heat is a form of energy, sometimes called thermal energy, which can pass spontaneously from an object at a high temperature to an object at a lower temperature. If the two objects are in contact, they will, given sufficient time, both reach the same temperature. Heat always travels from hot to cold objects and two objects will reach an equilibrium temperature. Heat flow is commonly measured in a device called a calorimeter, an insulating container that minimizes heat exchange between its contents and the surrounding. Heat flow in a device called a calorimeter. In this experiment, we should find the heat capacity of the
Methods The materials used in this experiment are all equally important to completing this experiment. These materials are all relatively common to find in a normal house hold. These materials consist of two six inch sections of nylon mesh or more commonly known as lacrosse mesh, a thermometer, and a ruler. This experiment also requires a timer, a marker, a water source and a lacrosse ball. (Mass of .335 lb.)
During the winter time our insulator is expected to keep the warm air in and the cold air out. Same as in the summer the insulator needs to keep the warm air out and the cold air in. I have picked 3 insulators to be tested for the best insulator. The first material I picked is Felt. Felt is a type of fabric known for making clothing out of it. The second material I picked is fleece, again another type of fabric. The last material I picked was Construction paper, a type of paper that is sturdier. Let us see what material that held in the most heat!
After World War II, the United States of America became a much wealthier nation. As America gained wealth and the populations in urban cities and transportation technology increased, many Americans spread out, away from the urban cities, to fulfill the common dream of having a piece of land to call their own. The landscape constructed became known as the suburbs, exclusive residential areas within commuting distance of a city. The popularity and success of the suburban landscape caused suburbs to sprawl across the United States, from the east coast to the west coast and along the borders between Canada and Mexico. By the 1990s, many suburbs surrounding major urban cities developed into being more than merely exclusive residential areas.
Arctic Insulation is a company that uses scrap paper along with fiber to produce insulation material used in home attics. They have two sources of the paper used to produce insulation; bulk paper from scrap dealers, and buying paper from the public at nominal rates. The direct labor cost for processing the bulk paper is much higher at $3.84 per bale compared to $.60 per bale for the purchased bales. The price per pound of scrap paper varies significantly based on market conditions.
Polyethylene is the world’s most widely used plastic. Polyethylene plastic’s principal application was in packaging, from trash bags to milk jugs. It was widely used in the manufacture of everything from trash bags, picnic cutlery and garbage pails, to plastic toys. Polyethylene also replaced glass, wood, and metal in certain applications.
Now we will move onto other materials that are involved with electronics. The next group of materials that will be discussed are insulators. An insulator is a material that does not conduct electricity at all but will resist or stop it from traveling further. An insulating atom has eight electrons in its valance shell which makes this shell complete. Eight is the most electrons that any atoms can have in their valance shell this is why these are called insulators, no more electrons can fit in the valance shell of these atoms.