How Many Paper Clips Can A Hot Air Balloon Lift?

Q: How Much weight can a Hot Air Balloon Lift?

H: A hot air balloon with four candles can lift up more paper clips than one with six candles

Procedure

Obtain materials needed to Create project and test material materials needed are, tissue paper, aluminum wire, candle and paper clips.

make small scale hot air balloon out of tissue paper and aluminum wire, the thick kind only.

Test How high it goes without weights, record it on paper add one paper clip every test until it cannot fly.

use the data to complete a chart and to answer questions and turn it in as a complete project.

My hypothesis was that a hot air balloon

powered by four candles could lift more

paper clips then six candles could, because

six candles weigh more than four and the

added weight will cause it to sink lower

down to the ground.

1. Make model hot air balloon

2. Test it

3. Add one paper clip and record data

4. Add more paper clips until the

balloon cannot fly anymore

5. Record and graph the data on google

spreadsheet

First, We I put togethertaped two straws with tape onto together to make a cross.

Next, I attached the straws to a plastic bag, that measuresmeasuring six microns

thick,k in order to make a canopy. , then we put Aaluminum foil was placed on

top of the straws to make a base for candles that will then produce the lift for the

balloon.

then we taped it down to the balloon and it was done.

The experiment began by lighting the four candles and recording data on how

well it flew. I added one candle per flight and added one more paper clip

incrementally until it couldn’t fly. Because of the blown heat in the house, tThere

was a slight draft of hot air that caused my project to move about in a strange

manor, but I feel that it was so minute that it did not change my results.. I found

that tThe air balloon could hold more paper clips with more candles, in other

words, / the air balloon held more grams of weight with more candles to fuel the

heateach additional candle.

There was a slight draft of hot air that caused my project to move about in

a strange manor.

I learned that even a home-made hot air balloon could not only be fun to

experiment with, but also can lift more weight with each additional candle. My

hypothesis was that a hot air balloon powered by four candles could lift more

paper clips then six candles. candles, can make a good hot air balloon and

Contrary to what I thought,that heat overrules weight in some cases. No my

hypothesis was not correct, I guessed that six candlesfour candles could lift more

paper clips than four six candles because despite the weight of the candles can.

This experiment was accurate because it was not basing off of a real people

carrying hot air balloon experiment.