Monday, January 16, 2012

Clothespin Lab

The clothespin lab was an experiment conducted to determine how many times my partners Timothy, Charlie, Peter, and Mohammed could open and close a clothespin in 30 seconds. The added challenge was that we had to go for 6 rounds with little rest in between rounds. Some interesting conclusions were drawn based on several attempts with several different participants:

1. the dominant hand always had more clicks compared to the round with the non-dominant hand.
2. The number of clicks was inversely proportional to the round number.
3. The last round always seemed to have more clicks than the second last round.
4. The pain was documented to be directy proportional to the round number

This lab was a great introduction to cellular respiration, and also a great chance for our group to exhibit our extraordinary finger strength :)

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