Laboratory Report

De Leon, Andrea
November 7, 2022

Statement of the problem:

• Why do the pepper flakes float on the water?
• Why did the pepper flakes move away to the edge of the plate?

Hypothesis:
• The pepper flakes are lightweight, so it has a high possibility to float on the water.

• The pepper represents as germs and when you touch it with soap it goes away to the
edge of the plate, that is why soap is such a good cleaner.

Materials:
• Plate.
• Hand wash
• Ground pepper
• Water

Procedure:
• Prepare the materials.
• Get the plate and put the water on it (just a few drops of amount of water)
• Then put the pepper (less pepper you use, the farther spread of the pepper)
• Pump the dishwasher liquid and put a small piece on your forefinger and start to poke
the water with the pepper.

Result:

• The reason the pepper flakes float is due to buoyancy, which is the upward force a
liquid exerts. An object placed on the liquid will float as a result of this force.
• The pepper flakes disperse to the plate's edge. This occurs as a result of the hand
washing soap altering the water's surface.

Conclusion:

   In conclusion, due to the cohesive structure of its molecules, liquid surfaces have a
tendency to resist external forces, which is known as surface tension. Because the
pepper flakes are so light, surface tension causes them to float on the water's surface.
Water's surface tension was broken by the addition of soap, yet the water molecules
wish to maintain it. As a result, they withdraw from the soap.