Analysis Of The Strongest Cling Wrap Experiment

Strongest Cling Wrap Experiment

Aim: In this experiment the goal is to find out what is the strongest cling wrap out of the two cling wraps being tested. A scientific law that can be used in this experiment is Hooke’s law, which is a way of measuring the stretch of a solid object. The information gained from calculating Hooke’s law will help answer the question of what is the strongest cling wrap, the information will be captured in a graph.

Literature Review: Hooke’s law is the process of measuring the elastic limit of a solid object. Hooke’s law is done by getting the force which is mass times gravity equals force. After you calculate the force you must measure how far the cling wrap has stretched form the edge of the table, then you must put it in a fraction, force over the stretch of the cling wrap. Using this method, you should be able to calculate a scientific answer to how strong out of the two cling wraps will be the strongest.

There was only one website that was similar to this experiment (Home Science Project with Plastic Wrap, 2017). In the website it goes into detail about scientific concepts like, stress, strain and Hooke’s law. It also shows you the concepts such as: “STRESS is the ratio of the applied load to the cross-sectional area. Because the width of the plastic wrap

Robert was studying springs and elasticity he “noticed that the stress vs strain curve for many materials has a linear region”. When Robert found this out he wrote about it and called it Hooke’s law and it is usually written as “F = -kx” “Where F is the force, x is the length of extension/compression and k is a constant of proportionality known as the spring constant which is usually given in N/m.” Hooke’s law is how you measure the elasticity of a solid object such as a spring or in this case a piece of cling