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Project Preference
Transferring water by beads.

Problem Statement
We had to measure a 1/4 cup of water, then transfer all of the water to small beads to be absorbed. The whole point of this project is to find the least amount of beads to absorb all the 1/4 cup of water.

Project Plan
For the next 4 weeks, we will be trying to achieve our best number of beads by testing the following:
 * Does light increase the speed of absorbing?
 * What is better, hot or cold water?
 * Does clean water (drinkable water) make the water absorbing faster?
 * Find out the absorbing capacity for the single bead.

Week1 Narrative
In the first weak, my group and I were trying to get to know how the mechanism of the beads absorbing works, and how long it takes one bead to get to its final and biggest spherical shape. After that, we were getting ideas on how to start our project and how to split roles and tasks between the group members, eventually we came up with three ideas:
 * Two cups of cold water temperature, one in the sunlight and one in the dark.
 * Two cups of room temperature water, one in the sunlight and one in the dark.
 * Two cups of hot water temperature, one in the sunlight and one in the dark.

My attempts were with the cold water and I came up with the following:
 * In the dark attempt, with an opened bag, it took 30 beads to absorb all the water with an 8 hours period.
 * In the sun light attempt, with an opened bag, it took almost 19 beads to absorb all the water with an 8 hours period.

Week 2 Narrative
For the second week of this experiment, I tried to fix some of the mistakes in the last weak. some of the notes that were fixed from last week:


 * Last week we did not cover the containers and then most of the water was gone through evaporation, this weak we covered our container and by that our measurements were more accurate.


 * Last week we did not do much measurements about the absorbent capacity per bead, this weak we measured the water level after leaving one bead there for six hours and with that we had more of an accurate prediction of how many beads we need.

After Changing these two kind of mistakes, we ended up having some resemble number between 34 to 50 beads according to which water temperature you go with(Cold, Room Temperature, Hot).