Ryan+K13

Ryan K 2012-2013
 * MELTING CHOCOLATE ON LIGHT BULBS**
 * ABSTRACT **

The purpose of this study was to determine which light bulb melts chocolate faster. Chocolate was put on various light bulbs and then the chocolate was measured for temperature to determine which one melted the most. It was determine that incandescent light bulbs were much hotter and melted chocolate faster and more than any CFL light bulbs. The incandescent light bulb was much hotter than the CFL light bulb because incandescent light bulb uses 90% of the power to create heat because the incandescent bulb creates it light by making a metal filament in the middle really hot, hot enough that it glows. The CFL light bulb uses 60% of its energy to create heat and 40% to create light. This is why incandescent light bulbs melt chocolate faster than a CFL light bulb. An improvement to this experiment would be to use a more precise measurements and use liquid measurements to record the melting of the chocolate. This way the melting would be more precise, and instead of the heat of the chocolate being measured the amount of melting would be measure. In order to expand the idea of this experiment it would be a good idea to determine how CFL and incandescent bulbs compare to LCD or fluorescent light bulbs.
 * EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS AND FUTURE EXPERIMENTS **

To read the complete ISP Paper for this experiment, click on the PDF file link below.