Project Design Plan

There are many times and reasons when a person wants a cold drink, but sometimes a cold drink is

nowhere to be found. When this happens, you are presented with the option of drinking your drink

at room temperature, or finding a solution to cool it down in a timely manner. Most people resort to

throwing their drink in the freezer for a half an hour or so in order to cool it to an acceptable level.

However, is that the best and most efficient method of cooling a drink down quickly? Is it even more

efficient than putting it in the refrigerator? I intend to test to find out.

Hypothesis:

I suspect that the refrigerator and freezer are not the most efficient ways to quickly cool a drink. Both

the refrigerator and freezer cool through convection, and I believe conduction will prove to be a more

effective cooling method. As such, I will test both the refridgerator and freezer, as well as several

variations of ice baths.I believe that an ice/water/salt bath will provide the best results, because it will

provide for the most conductive area, and will also have the lowest conductive agent temperature,

because the addition of salt will lower the freezing point of the ice/water solution, allowing the solution

to get a few degrees colder than the standard ice/water solution.

Experimental Design:

To test the above questions, I intend to test a solution (in this case, simple bottled water) in a variety

of different environments to see which environment cools it the fastest. I will test 5 different methods

of cooling the bottles of water, and I will test 4 bottles in each method at different timeframes. The

1. Bottled water in the refrigerator with normal use. I will put bottles in the refrigerator, and will

remove them at the designated testing time periods. During this time, the