Om+N14

Om N 2013 - 2014
 * THE STUDY OF RUBBER BANDS AND THEIR PROPERTIES **


 * ABSTRACT **

The purpose of this study was to test the properties of rubber bands. Rubber bands have molecules which help them stretch also, when a rubber band is in motion it is experiencing kinetic energy. Rubber bands were aged different amounts of time and how far they flew when shot was measured. It was found out that the longer the rubber band was aged the shorter the rubber band flew but after a while the aged rubber bands started to fly the same because the aging didn't really affect them anymore. This was because when a rubber band is stretched for periods of time it loses some of its elasticity and after a while it can’t lose any more elasticity so it flies about the same.

The experiments that were done could have been improved, for example when rubber bands were heated It took time to do the experiment so they cooled down a little before they were shot. Future experiments that could be done are dipping rubber bands in different liquids and then shooting them another is exposing the rubber band to different amounts of light and then shooting it.
 * EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS - FUTURE EXPERIMENTS. **

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