Question: How does having foaming or normal soap affect how it breaks cohesion for pepper on milk’s

surface?

Research:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00aZJP4kmK4

https://www.instructables.com/id/How-Dish-Soap-Works-Water-Surface-Tension-Experime/

Hypothesis:

I think that the foam will work but not as well as the normal soap so, it may collect more pepperflakes.

Steps:

1. Get a 2 shallow bowls or plates , foam soap, normal soap, 2 cups of milk, pepper, and 2
toothpicks
2. Fill the bowl with 1 cup of milk
3. Cover with pepper
4. Dip the toothpick in one of the soaps
5. Dip in center of bowl
6. Go back to step 2. with different, bowl, soap, pepper, and toothpick
7. Compare results of foam or normal soap.
8. (optional) do fun stuff with soap

WHY:

As the soap moves into the milk the surface tension changes, the pepper no longer floats on the top but
the milk molecules want to keep the surface tension and they pull back away from the soap and carry
the pepper with them.

Experiment:
Conclusion:

In the end they were similar. My hypothesis was incorrect in that the normal soap would be better, but
the foaming soap was faster and basically cut the tightly strung net of pepper, while the normal soap
spread out more circular and delayed about 1 second before it reacted to the pepper.