Ice-Haley_Vivien

=**Does the color of light effect the melting rate of ice?**=

The hypothesis of this experiment is that red light will make the ice melt the fastest, because it has the longest wavelength. In conducting our experiment, we first made about fifteen ice cubes over night. Next, we lined an alluminum pie pan with three paper towels so the alluminum of the pie pan doesn't absorb heat and speed up the process of melting the ice. The different colored light bulbs that we tested were red, yellow, green, blue, and white. We measured the time in minutes.

In the end, our hypothesis was not supported. The white light took much less time to melt.We think this is because, white light is a combination of all colors. All the wave lengths combined makes a super-strong wave length. If any one were to redo this experiment, we would recommend that you make sure you have enough time to conduct the experiment. It can take up to an hour or more for the ice to melt. If you wanted to continue this project, in a similar fashion, we think it would be interesting and fun to see if the color of ice affects how fast it melts.

We would not have chosen this project to do again because of the long time it takes for the ice to melt. It is also not entertaining to sit and watch ice slowly melting. We think the egg drop would be fun to do because it has a lot more action.

Here are our results in the form of a graph.