Explain Why The Ice Water Cooled The Soda The Fastest

After conducting my experiment, the results have led me to the conclusion that the ice water cooled the soda the fastest. This happened because the melting ice uses energy. Though water that is in the process of freezing gives off energy, melting ice cubes absorb energy. This means that when the ice is melting, it is absorbing energy from the soda, therefore causing it to lose energy and make its molecules slow down and freeze. This is why the soda cooled the fastest in the ice water; its energy was decreasing. In the refrigerator, the soda was just sitting in cold air. The same thing happened with the freezer. In the bucket of ice, nothing was making the ice melt quickly so it wasn’t using a lot of energy. This is why the ice water cooled
the soda the fastest. While conducting the experiment, I noticed some weird things. First, there wasn’t a pattern. Sometimes the temperature would drop three degrees, then two, then six. Also, I noticed that not all three of the soda can would cool at the same time. For example, the freezer would cool two cans of soda in 30 minutes and the other one in 35.

All in all, the ice water cools the soda the fastest. The next time that I need a cold Pepsi, i will definitely use ice water.