Purpose: Which fruit will produce the most electric voltage?
Hypothesis: From my understanding fruits do not produce that much electric voltage because of the food texture. My hypothesis is the biggest fruit will take produce the most amount of electric voltage from how big the fruit is, For example water melon compared to an apple. If we were to both give them the same amount of time to produce electric voltage with our Materials the watermelon would produce more because of the size the water melon has leaving it to have more space to produce and make more Electric Voltage. See the fruits as capacity sizes, A water melon has a big capacity leaving it to have more space, An apple has a small core and size leaving it to only hold the amount of how big it is. The bigger the fruit the more electric voltage that it will produce from our lab. My hypothesis has a great understanding of why this would happen to the amount of electric energy/voltage that will take place inside of the fruit. The texture inside of the fruit would also make a big difference to the amount of volt energy that it picks up.
Materials Needed:
1 Voltmeter:
2 Wires:
1 Nail
1 Copper Strip
3 fruits/Vegetables
Procedure
Connect the copper strip and both wires to the voltmeter, Switch the volt meter to the max voltage to three. connect nail, put all of the materials connected to the fruit and see the result on the volt meter.
(Reasoning) Why. For this lab the reasoning for the fruit getting a electric current is because since there is a nail and a copper strip in the fruit, this would cause a electric reaction and produce electric because of it. This would show on the volt meter once the nail and the copper strip is connected.
Observations: For our lab we had three fruits, Apple, Orange, and a lime. The toughest one to get through was the lime because of the hard shell on the outside. From what I saw the least amount of electric current was the apple and the most amount of electric current was the lime, The reasoning for this is because of the texture inside of the fruit, If you were to put a potatoes it would be a lot because of the thin skin and the chemicals inside of the fruit.
Results:
For our end result we figured out the most electric current that was generated by the fruit was the lime, and we saw that the least amount of electric current was the apple. The reason for the electrons going through the fruit is because of the nail and the copper strip connecting together to create electrons between the both and causing the fruit to make a reaction and create a electric circuit. this could have been a error if you were to get electrocuted from the copper strip or the nail. the things that we could made difference in the lab was if we put the nail and the copper strip in different positions to create more or less electric current. this would not be a good Idea to use in a real life scenario because there would not be any use for checking the current on one of your favorite fruits. In the end my Hypothesis was incorrect and some of the things that I said didn’t make sense when doing the lab, which is what labs are for, there is lots of incorrect and correct hypothesis that occur.