Group1 Lab2

Physics Home Laboratory
1. Abaño, Daphnie
Anjonette B.
2. Codorniz, Lawrence
Timothy P.
Names Section MS202 Date 2 March 2022
3. Mallanao, Russel Kyle
M.
4.Marbil, Wesley M
5. Samson, Elaiza Yeitz E.
Subject General Physics 2 (PHY02) Quarter 3rd Group No. 1
Topic Temperature
A. Introduction
Carlo is working out some fun science activity when his mother called him to have some break before
continuing to his work. While mixing his favorite drink, which is powdered orange juice in ice-cold
water, he noticed a certain behavior in the liquid compared to when he put it in room temperature water.
Help Carlo discover the science behind this.
B. Objectives:
1. Explain what is temperature.
2. Explain the change in food coloring behavior at different water temperatures.
C. Materials:
Kitchen Thermometer
Three clear glasses (can hold at least 250 ml of water)
Water (250 ml of room temperature water, cold water, and hot water)
Food coloring (any color)
D. Procedures: (Draw the procedures based on your understanding of the guide questions. Use arrows
to represent the flow)
Prepared by: Ms. Jesserene P. Bantolo, LPT, MST

E. Data and Observations: (Write down all your observations. Include picture documentation of your
experiment with captions)

The students had three glasses of water: hot, room temperature, and cold. Hot water is in glass A, room
temperature water is in glass B, and cold water is in glass C. Glass A was 41.3 degrees, glass B was
31.8 degrees, and glass C was 22.6 degrees. The food coloring spread quickly in Glass A. The food
coloring in glass B spread in just a couple of seconds, whereas it took a minute to apply in glass C.
Glass A was the quickest to respond, and its molecules moved quicker than the other two glasses.
Followed by glass B and then glass C. There was a faster reaction to the hot water glass because the
molecules were moving the most quickly. The hottest glass diffused the quickest because the particles
had the highest kinetic energy and collided the most often, spreading the colored particles throughout
the water.
F. Guide Questions:
1. What are the temperatures of the three glasses of water?
The hot water measured up to 41.3 degrees Celsius, the cold water was 22.6 degrees Celsius, and
the room temperature water was 31.8 degrees Celsius.
2. What is “temperature”?
Temperature is the measurement of the coldness or hotness of an object that is expressed in
arbitrary scales. (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2021)
3. Make a prediction. What might be different about the way the food coloring moves through the cold
water, hot water, and room temperature water?
It was predicted that the food coloring would spread out faster and larger in the hot water, while in
the cold water, it would move the slowest.
4. What happened as you slowly drop food coloring into each glass? Do not mix or stir.
The group had used gel food coloring, hence naturally, it would sink to the bottom. In the hot water,
the gel food coloring almost immediately dissolved and spread throughout the container. In the room
temperature water, the food coloring was slower in spreading its colors out. Lastly in the cold water,
the food coloring sank to the bottom and it spread out the least.
5. What happens to the food coloring as it mixes with the water at different temperatures? Does it move
differently in the different water temperature? Explain your observation.
It was observed that the temperatures of the water affected the movement of food coloring. The food
coloring dispersed vaster and faster in the hot water. It was also observed that in the cold water, the
food coloring dispersed its colors, but the color sank to the bottom of the container.
6. Based on your observation, explain the energy of water molecules at different water temperatures.
The energy of the water molecules in the hot water had the highest amount of thermal energy, as seen
in Glass A. Glass B, with the room temperature water, showed that the food coloring took longer to
mix due to the decreased amount of thermal energy, thus showing slower movement of the water
molecules. Glass C took the longest to mix because of the further decrease in thermal energy; hence
the water molecules in this glass were the slowest out of the three.
G. Applications
Why do we make coffee and tea with hot water and not cold water?
Coffee and tea are frequently sold as solids or powders. They dissolve better in hot water than in cold
water because the energy of hot water is higher than that of cold temperature liquids. There are more
collisions between the molecules and the solid. Solids dissolve significantly faster in hot water than in
cold water because molecules in heated liquids tend to move around more.
H. Conclusions
Overall, the experiment successfully demonstrated that temperature has a significant impact on the
energy of water molecules at various water temperatures. Furthermore, it demonstrated how particles
react in different temperatures when immersed in liquid. When the researchers put food coloring into
three glasses at different temperatures, the results differed. The molecules in the glass with the hottest
water move faster than those in the other two glasses, from warm to cold. The hot water had the quickest
reaction because the particles had the most kinetic energy and collided the most frequently, dispersing
the colored particles throughout the water. The thermal energy of water molecules was most significant
in hot water, while it was less in cold water, resulting in slower water molecules.

References:
Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia (2021, July 7). Temperature. Encyclopedia Britannica.
https://www.britannica.com/science/temperature

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Physics Home Laboratory

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Prepared by: Ms. Jesserene P. Bantolo, LPT, MST

Prepared by: Ms. Jesserene P. Bantolo, LPT, MST

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