Winter Experiment Project Blog #1

Blog Entry 1 (Complete by 12/3):  Explain your experiment.  Be sure to include the following:

• ·         You goal for the experiment.
• ·         How you will use the 4 Principles of a Well-Designed Experiment.
• ·         A description of your factors, levels, and treatments.
• ·         A timeline for your experiment.

Our goal for our experiment is to test how generic toilet paper compares to name brand toilet paper. 

Control-- we will control the type of liquids used, the setting, who does the pouring the the liquids, the scale used to measure the amount of liquid absorbed.

Randomize-- we will randomly choose pieces of toilet paper by assigning values to pieces of toilet paper and using a random number generator.

Replicate-- we will use multiple trials, and write down all the steps so that it can be repeated by others.

Blocking-- we will blocking by using different values of liquid, different liquids and different numbers of sheets.

Factors-- volume of water used, volume of juice used, and number of sheets used.

Levels-- we will use tap water, and pulpy orange juice as our liquids. Then we will use two different volumes of liquids (to be announced). Number of sheets will differ from one to two sheets.

Treatments-- our treatments will be using different liquids, while our blocking and factors were different sheets, our treatments will involve water, and a thicker liquid, orange juice.

Timeline-- Unlike other experiments our experiment will only take place during one day. However, the sequence of events will be randomly select sheets of toilet paper... in groups of one and two. Then we will do complete all of the water trials, for both groups of sheets. Then we will complete this for the orange juice. We will weigh the initial sheets, then pour the liquid on and see how much liquid the sheet absorbed.