In this experiment we made an aluminium boat to see how many pennies it could hold, we got one piece of aluminium, two mini marshmallows, two tooth picks, one small strip of tape. Our boat held 95 pennies, We made sure no water leaked into our boat, and placed the pennies strategically. Our design was a bowl shape with two tooth picks crossing at the bottom, we use the marshmallows to help stick the tooth picks.
Hypothesis (If, then, because…)
If we make our aluminium boat then it will hold a couple hundred pennies because air that is in the boat will help it float .
Conclusion
My hypothesis was very over exaggerated because we didn’t even get one hundred pennies. As I was observing the boat while the pennies were being placed the boat was slowly crumpling and was being pushed into the water. As I was the penny placer I could feel the impact each penny was making as I was placing them down, I tried to put the dry pennies down because the less water on the pennies means that it will be lighter. For some reason something I notice was that the pennies weirdly smelt like vinegar to me. I feel having high walls on your boat really made the boat have a bigger weight capacity because most of the boats sank due to water flooding the boat, which made the boat sink.