Investigating whether the effect of clothing would have any affect on Jack’s hypothermia state and his tragic death at the end of the movie “Titanic”.

Skill 3 Data Collection

Control Experiment:

Quantitative data:

Layers of clothing: 3

Surrounding room temperature: 24.5 °C

15ml of 40°C of water acting as body temperature

Qualitative data: Even though tightly wrapped with 3 layers of clothing, and only affected by the surrounding room temperature, the temperature readings on the data logger continued to decrease until it was about the same level with the environment.

Submerged Experiment:

Quantitative data:

Submerged water temperature: 5°C

Submerged amount of test tube: 8cm

Surrounding room temperature: 24.5 °C

15ml of 40°C of water acting as body temperature

Qualitative data: Similar with the control experiment, the temperature readings on the data logger decreased. However this time the decrease was much more rapid, and temperature readings on logger tend to vary and jump about 0.5°C. In addition to this, when removing test tube after experiment it was observed that many of the modeled sea water was absorbed by the clothing, therefore we had to replace the water and ensure that it remains back at a constant temperature of 5°C.

Skill 4 Data Processing

By Clement Ng 12.6 Thursday, April 4 2002 12:39AM