The floating egg experiment – How much salt is needed to make an egg float? Aim: To investigate the effects of salt on the density of water (and therefore the ability to float an object in said water) and to find the amount of salt needed to float one regular egg in a glass of water. Research: Internet research shows that adding salt to water increases the density‚ and in turn makes it easier for objects to float. 4-10 teaspoons of salt in 1 glass of water is said to be enough to make one egg
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Stanley Milgram ’s Experiment In Stanley Milgram ’s essay Some Conditions of Obedience and Disobedience to Authority‚ the self-proclaimed "social psychologist" conducted a study while working as a psychologist at Yale University. The primary goal of Milgram ’s experiment was to measure the desire of the participants to shock a learner in a controlled situation. The experiment was based on three primary roles: the authoritative figure‚ the learner‚ and the teachers. The authoritative figure instructed
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Critique of The Hawthorne Experiments Biography Written by Fritz J. Roethlisberger (1898 – 1974)‚ The Hawthorne Experiments‚ explores the experiments‚ results and conclusions of studies performed at the Hawthorne Plant of the Western Electric Company. The Hawthorne Effect is the theory that resulted from the studies. Roethlisberger‚ a key member of the team‚ joined the team in 1927 and actively participated in the research until 1936‚ first as Elton Mayo’s assistant and later as his collaborator
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In May‚ 1962 an experiment was done at Yale University. The experiment was called Milgram’s Obedience to Authority. The participants of the experiment was forty males. The male’s ages were between twenty and fifty years old. Along‚ with the age differences they all had different occupations. Once the experiment begins the learner is tied down to a chair. The teacher is then put in a room opposite of the learner and is not able to see the learner. The purpose of the learner is to remember the line
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Combustion Aim: To determine the molar heat of combustion of methanol‚ ethanol and 1-propanol Materials: 3 spirit burners‚ one containing methanol‚ one containing ethanol and one containing 1-propanol. A thermometer A copper calorimeter 100 ml measuring cylinder Retort stand and clamps Stopwatch Matches Electronic balance Safety assessment: This experiment contains flammable materials remove loose clothing such as ties which could be set alight. Wear safety glasses
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thousands of unconsented medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners. The experiments could be split up into three categories. Experiments aimed at facilitating the survival of military personnel‚ developing and testing pharmaceuticals and treatment methods for injuries and illnesses which German military encountered‚ and the final category was to advance the racial and ideological tenets of the Nazi worldview. The article describes a type of experiment that was part of the first section
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THE SUBJECT MATTER OF EXPERIMENTS A well-designed experiment tells us that changes in the explanatory variable cause changes in the response variable. More exactly‚ it tells us that this happened for specific subjects in the specific environment of this specific experiment. No doubt we had grander things in mind. We want to proclaim that our new method of teaching math does better for high school students in general or that our new drug beats a placebo for some broad class of patients. Can we
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Reading Log Title: A Most Ambitious Experiment Author: Mike Krath Length: 5 pages Plot – What is the short story about? Message? Hidden messages? It’s about a man named Robert who travels 20 years ahead in time to find out if he had invested his money well. He tells his wife he’ll be back in five minutes‚ but instead she waits for 20 years for his return. When he comes back he finds out his wife had spent all the money. He travels back in time to make sure she cannot do that again
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antisocial behavior. The experiment was undertaken with pastoralists from southern Namibia and the study area is divided into two parts according to the exogenous differences in biomass production (a high yield and a low yield area). In this paper‚ biomass production is taken as a proxy of resource scarcity and moved the lab to the field to observe fundamental human behaviors‚ such as risk aversion‚ time preference‚ trust‚ spite‚ and cooperation. There were two experiments‚ such as‚ a one-shot public
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research experiment to study how people conformed to the roles they are given. The experiment was set up in the basement of Stanford Psychology building. Zimbardo’s goal was‚ “... to understand more about the process by which people called “prisoners” lose their liberty‚ civil rights‚ independence‚ and privacy‚ while those called “guards” gain social power by accepting the responsibility for controlling and managing the lives of their dependent charges” (Zimbardo par. 11). Although the experiment was
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