Do Different Substances Affect How High a Polymer Bounces?
The Title of my project is Do Different Substances Affect How High a Polymer Bounces? I thoroughly enjoyed doing this project because it involves chemistry. I hope to do AP or CP chem in High School because I like watching chemicals react and blow up : )
In this project, I added one teaspoon of certain chemicals to a glue based polymer. A polymer is a usually large chain of molecules formed of smaller molecules known as monomers. They are used to make the following:
- carpets
- synthetics
- plastic bottles
- toys
- tarps
- some advanced tech helmets
- terrorist escape preventors
- some fabrics
- packaging materials
- liquid plastic coatings
- mouse pads
- rubber gloves, shoes, boots, etc.
- yarn
Just about everything you do involves polymers:
brushing your hair (plastic brush handle and tines)
Getting dressed (some fabrics of your clothes may be made of polymers)
riding your bike (the plastic on your helmet or the padding in your advanced tech helmet and a plastic water bottle)
walking (your shoes may have plastic on the end of the shoelaces or the soles are made of rubber)
mailing something to your sister (packaging materials i.e. bubble wrap)
using this computer (its plastic shell)
listening to a CD or Tape ( CDs are plastic and the tape has a plastic case and shell and its tape is a thin plastic film)
Pretty much everything you do involves a polymer. Scary, huh?
"Polymers are like atoms. We never stop finding out and learning more about them. Every new technological advance we make leads to new information. Also, learning about the polymer can help us make new safety appliances and products."