Lesson 6: Explaining the Effect of Different Lid Designs V3

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4 questions
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A beverage company wants to stop using plastic straws, so the company designs a new lid. The new lid has a much bigger hole than the old lid.
Alex, a scientist at the company, is wondering how this might affect what happens with the liquid inside the cup.




A beverage company wants to stop using plastic straws, so the company designs a new lid. The new lid has a much bigger hole than the old lid.
Alex, a scientist at the company, is wondering how this might affect what happens with the liquid inside the cup.




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1

If Alex does an experiment and fills 2 cups with cold liquid at the same temperature:
  • 1 cup with the old lid (with a bigger hole)
  • 1 cup with the new lid (with a smaller hole)
Which cup do you think warmed up more?

Required
1

Look back to number 1.
Explain why you think the cup warmed up more.

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1

At the end of 30 days Alex finds that one cup lost more liquid than the other. Add particle diagrams for the zoomed-in views at lid locations A and B to help explain how that could happen.

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1

Alex repeats the Question 1 experiment 4 times. Each time, she records how much the liquid in the cup that warmed up the most changed temperature after 10 minutes. Here are her results:
Based on these data, what is the average temperature change for the liquid in the cup? ________℃

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