Abstract

Well, just in case you’re interested in what’s the report about I just blogged my abstract from my sci report.
Enjoy??

   With a huge disappointment on how many people in the nowadays society taken this magnificent invention, the Blu-Tack, for granted, the many wheels whirled and cause more questions to ask how the Blu-Tack is made and most importantly its effectiveness. Eventually the student research project was the effectiveness of Blu-Tack according to the stickiness of it on holding a poster in hot conditions.

     Being invented by a laboratory researcher called Austin Carpenter who wanted to make another sealant product, made Blu-Tack instead. Til now the secret of how and what Blu-Tack have not been revealed.

     Since this topic is related towards hot conditions, heat has to be used in this experiment. Convection, radiation and conduction was all researched The final methods decided to be used were using the stove fire, steam of hot water and a table lamp.

     Despite having the results supporting the hypothesis made in the beginning of the research, the hypothesis should have been more detailed. The results also did not answer the topic question. It was said that the methods should have been changed and that there were a few careless errors during the conduction of the experiment.

     Discovering how heat can greatly affect Blu-Tack’s stickiness, it can affect the durability of it. During the experiment, it was discovered that the more heat is directed at the Blu-Tack, the stickier it will get. This allows the poster to be stuck onto the wooden lid longer but the more it gets stickier, the more unusable it gets. This will ruin the Blu-Tack and therefore not be able to use again since it lost its stickiness. No wonder the package tells users to put them in a cool environment. This proves that the stickiness of Blu-Tack is one greatest factor in the effectiveness of it. 

Method

 

I had to redo my method since my topic kind of changed and I thought this was more suitable and accurate to investigate my SRP. Here you go then…

     The materials used in the experiment was a jar of hot water, a table lamp, Bostik’s Blu-Tack, a thermometer, a stopwatch timer, a glossy paper which is also the same quality as a poster paper, and a wooden lid of a box to act as the wall the poster sticks to, and a stove.

     The three methods that was used to analysis the stickiness of Blu-Tack was holding it over the stove, over the steam of the hot water and leaving it near the table lamp. The top of the glossy paper was stuck to the wooden lid. The stove was set up at a low setting for the fire so it would not burn the paper or wooden lid. At the same time, the stopwatch timer was set up to start timing when the glossy paper stuck onto the wooden lid was held over the fire. Throughout the whole process, glossy paper stuck on the wooden lid was kept at a close watch for any burning that might happen. The stopwatch timer was stopped when the glossy paper dropped off the wooden lid. This method was repeated several times. The same set up process as the method before was done. Instead of the holding it over the stove, it was held over a jar of steaming hot water. This method was also repeated several times. The same process to set up the equipment as the other two methods was also done for this method. As the stopwatch timer started, the wooden lid with the glossy paper was stuck on was left 3cm from the table lamp. When the glossy paper dropped off, the same method was repeated several times.

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Re-post #1

Topic

Blu Tack & its stickiness in hot conditions

Topic Question

The stickiness of Blu Tack on holding a poster in hot conditions

Hypothesis

It would take a long period of time for the factors in the hot conditions to affect the Blu Tack holding up the poster.

tired tired...

nearly finished with my sci report................

i will finish the rest tomorrow morning.......

oh man..still have to do that booklet...

*sigh*

Argh..re-posting my stuff

Yep, i'm most likely going to re-post everything that i have done so far so it makes sense to Miss Zhang
and ...
I WILL SOO GET THIS SRP REPORT DONE BY TOMORRRROOOWW!!

IDEAS TO DO THE EXPERIMENT *re-post*

Use blu tack to hold up a poster in different environments
Use the heat to test the stickiness of blu tack and how long it holds up the poster

At least it's going somewhere

I can't believe I thought of the experiment was sticking the posters in the sun for a period of time!!
Now i get what you're meant to do for this experiment for this topic...
*Working on sci report*

What should I do?!?!

Yes, I haven't blogged much so I gonna get a bad mark for my blog mark. Just to let you know I've done everything that you're meant to do except I didn't post it in my blog. Like the person I am, I'm NOT really a blogger-type of person.

On the other hand, my experiment has also completely failed.......
As you know my SRP topic is the effectiveness of blu-tack on holding up a poster in hot conditions.
I realised I should have done my experiment when Miss Zhang told us to do it (the start of May) but of course, I didn't. When I wanted to start it in the later half of May, it rained and poured for the rest of the month.
I went into panic mode and emailed Miss but then luckily someone suggested that I should change my method a bit..and that's exactly what I did...
I didn't want to post one big entry of everything I've done so I'll eventually reveal my modified method, results and etc. through many entries.

Well good luck to me..and to everyone else who reads my blog...