Coca-Cola Project
Purpose
The purpose of this project was to learn more about converting amounts from one unit to another, build teamwork skills, and develop a final result.
Project
We were told that Coca-Cola company needed our help to create enough phosphoric acid to make more soda. We were put into groups to work on the project. We had to research things like how much phosphorus costs, how much phosphorus was needed to create phosphoric acid, where we would get the phosphorus, how many days it would take to get the phosphorus to us, and where we would even get the phosphorus. We had to calculate the cost of the total amount of phosphorus and how many grams we needed (by converting units).
Reflection
I thought that this project was fun for the most part. I liked having to construct our own board. We kind of turned ours into a Rube Goldberg machine, but it included many of the required reactions. We had a single displacement reaction on one side of the board. We also had a lever that was triggered by a balloon full of gas, which tipped the lever for a double displacement reaction and sent a current through a paperclip to activate the LED light.
The purpose of this project was to learn more about converting amounts from one unit to another, build teamwork skills, and develop a final result.
Project
We were told that Coca-Cola company needed our help to create enough phosphoric acid to make more soda. We were put into groups to work on the project. We had to research things like how much phosphorus costs, how much phosphorus was needed to create phosphoric acid, where we would get the phosphorus, how many days it would take to get the phosphorus to us, and where we would even get the phosphorus. We had to calculate the cost of the total amount of phosphorus and how many grams we needed (by converting units).
Reflection
I thought that this project was fun for the most part. I liked having to construct our own board. We kind of turned ours into a Rube Goldberg machine, but it included many of the required reactions. We had a single displacement reaction on one side of the board. We also had a lever that was triggered by a balloon full of gas, which tipped the lever for a double displacement reaction and sent a current through a paperclip to activate the LED light.