Solar Cooker
What is the highest temperature that different materials produce while under a heat lamp?
Find out what materials I need to complete this project
Cut a flap in the top of the box
Line the opening on the top of the box with plastic wrap to make the box have a greenhouse effect
Add tinfoil to the top of the box to reflect the heat and the light into the box
Meanwhile when the box is heating up I was recording the temperature every minute
Than I graph/plot the data and made a line graph.
I think that the black paper would be the hottest because when I was in florida there were very little black houses and I asked my dad why and he said that “black and dark colors absorb heat and trap it meanwhile the lighter colors are reflecting heat and light that is why most of the houses in southern states are lighter colors so that they don't heat up as much as a black house.”
The tinfoil made it the hottest in the shoebox I think it was because that the Rays off of the heat lamp reflected off of the tinfoil and was magnified. I tested black paper (110.3 degrees) and cloth (107.3 degrees) along with it the tinfoil (117.9 degrees) at the end was the warmest but it took forever to get to its final temperature the tinfoil got warm very fast and was more warm than the cloth.
Abstract
Solar Cooker
I am trying to see which material creates the hottest temperature I am going to see if tinfoil black paper or black cloth. I choose this project because I thought this would be interesting in the future because I've always wondered how ovens are black and regular ovens aren't made of tin foil if they were made of tin foil that I think they could have been more efficient but my hypothesis is that the tinfoil will make the shoebox hotter than the black paper or black cloth
How I did my experiment was this first I got the shoe box cut a small line in it than I folded it up, layered it with either black paper cloth or tin foil after that I put plastic wrap over the opening so I can have sort of a greenhouse effect. After that I cut a hole in the middle of the shoe box on the front side so that I can put a thermometer inside so I can read the temperature. The temperature varied from material to material but I found that the tinfoil won at the end of the experiment.
The data and the observations that I have collected have been equal to my hypothesis. The tinfoil made it the hottest in the shoebox I think it was because that the Rays off of the heat lamp reflected off of the tinfoil and was magnified. I tested black paper (110.3 degrees) and cloth (107.3 degrees) along with it the tinfoil (117.9 degrees) at the end was the warmest but it took forever to get to its final temperature the tinfoil got warm very fast and was more warm than the cloth. And then the black paper was in the middle the black paper absorbed the Heat and held it in.
Conclusions were correct and I learned that this could be helpful for either exterior walls of an house for the walls to use and not to use you would want to use the lighter color walls end and reflective walls that will reflect the Heat and all the sun rays that could potentially raise the heat in the interior of the house my hypothesis was correct because at the end of this experiment I predicted that the tin foil would be the hottest in the Box the temperature was 117.9 degrees the end temperature of the second hottest material which was the black paper reached 110.3 degrees at the end the cloth which was the least hottest material reach 107.2 degrees Fahrenheit. I say the my experiment was accurate because I used a thermometer and I did the same angle of the heat lamp forever experiment there could have been more or less material in the Box I could have made the material more equal and also could depend on the room temperature. I could have made the experiment better by repeating it more than once and also have the same exact positioning of the box.
Graphs