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Title:
What type of tape can hold the most weight?

Problem Scenario:
It is worth asking because most people pick duct tape because they believe that it is the strongest. Many people use it for holding their household items together when they are broken.

Broad Question:
What type of tape can hold the most weight?

Specific Question:
When tape strips are put under pressure will they hold?

Hypothesis:
When using the tapes duct tape, colored duct tape, and electrical tape, I believe that the electrical tape will break when put under five hundred grams of weight.

Graph of Hypothesis:
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Independent Variable:
Tape size, and the cups I am using.

Dependent Variable:
Whether or not the tape rips depends on how much the BB's weigh.

Variables That Need To Be Controlled:
How fast I put the bag of BB"s into the cup.

General Plan
My thought is the a at when doing my experiment I will place a measured bag of BB's into the cup with the tape strips attached to it and see what happens to the tape. I will write down the results and turn them into a graph table.

Potential Problems And Solutions
The tape could have a malfunction and rip before I get it attached to the cup and that would be a problem.

Safety Or Environmental Concerns
There is no real safety concerns in my project.

Number Of Trials:
I did the test once for each amount.

Number Of Subjects In Each trial:
I had the same tapes in each trial.

When data will be collected
2/6/12

Number of Observations:
My entire experiment was based on observations of the tape.

Where will data be collected?:
In my science class room.

Resources and Budget Table
Duct tape, Electrical tape, Colored tape, red plastic cups, and copper BB's.

Data Table

 * Grams || Duck Tape || Colored Tape || Electrical Tape ||
 * 75 || Stretched at corner A || No result || Stretched in the center ||
 * 100 || No result || Stretched at corner C || Stretched at corner D ||
 * 125 || Stretched at corners A and D || No result || Stretched at corners A and B ||
 * 150 || Stretched at corners C and B || No result || No result ||
 * 175 || No result || No result || Stretched at corner C ||
 * 200 || Stretched at corner C || No result || Stretched at corner A ||
 * 225 || No result || No result || Stretched at corner D ||
 * 250 || Stretched at corner A || No result || Stretched at corner B ||
 * 275 || No result || No result || Stretched at corner A ||
 * 300 || No result || No result || No result ||
 * 325 || Slight stretch in the center || No result || No result ||
 * 350 || Ripped at corner B || No result || No result ||

Background Research
My research was not based on the experiment but based on the tapes themselves. The reason I did that was because you can't do much research on records of what tape has been able to do, but you can research on how it came to be.

History Of Tape

During World War II, there was a need for strong, flexible, waterproof tape that could repair anything our boys overseas needed. The company Johnson and Johnson took the task. Using medical tape as a base they then applied a cloth backing therefore it could be flexible to any task it had. They shipped all of their productions overseas and Duct Tape was born. It then earned the nickname “Duck Tape” because it was waterproof. For that the tape enterprise progressed to what we have today.

 Electrical Tape was in 1946 just after the war. It was designed to insulate any electrical wire. But now it is used for repairing wires and even arts and decorations. Today electrical tape is a must have on any electrical job in the electronics industry. Because of the unpredictable hazards that can happen, it is now required that they have a roll of electrical tape on the job site. This happened because in 1997 a man was working on a loose wire and he received a high powered shock which almost cost him his life. His family was furious and so they had a movement to have it passed to have electrical tape on the job site. These tapes have been an important part of the history of America. We use these tapes, sometimes daily, without even thinking about how they came to be. I believe that knowing where household items came from is important, because it makes you think about what things have been through.

Conclusion
My conclusion is that my hypothesis was wrong and that the best tape to buy is colored duct tape for maximum strength against pressure.