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Hot Box Experiment
Hot Box Experiment
Faculty of Engineering
Department of Petroleum Engineering
Theory:
The wrapped shoe hot box is a solar thermal energy project designed to test
the greenhouse principle. Our experiment is to test two brown shoe boxes,
but one of the boxes is wrapped with plastic foil. The other shoe box is kept
unwrapped. In this experiment we will see which shoe box is able to conduct
heat more than the other one. The both brown shoes boxes must be affected
by certain important factors concerning solar heat gain the Greenhouse
Effect, the importance of color and the importance of insulation.
Hypothesis: The wrapped with plastic foil brown shoe box will absorb more
heat.
Apparatus:
Plastic Foil
Notebook and pencil
Scissors
Two Shoe Boxes
Two Thermometers
Procedure:
Results:
Conclusion:
The aim of this experiment was to determine the factors the affecting
temperature of each shoe box
The hot box is a solar thermal energy project that shows how plastic
wrap is a good insulator that becomes heat conductor. In this
experiment the hypothesis we stated was correct. The wrapped with
plastic foil brown shoe box absorbed more heat.