September 25, 2015

We wanted to figure out if art projects expanded with heat so we first had to set up the large coiled heater that was sitting in the middle of the classroom. I apologized for not coming to the lab section last week because I couldn’t find the room (I wasn’t aware that the location had changed). We first had to connect a thick cable to the heating unit and I asked why the two subwires didn’t need to be plugged in as well. Apparently just plugging in the central one was enough.

To begin our experiment, we placed hamburgers in front of the heater that operated using nitrogen gas(?). After removing our sample, we made a silicone mold of the burger to inspect changes in size without the burger itself crumbling to bits.