With all our data collection, it was important for us to sit down and actually try and make sense of it. We had data on how the light was interacting with each of the cups and it was helpful for us to see what the data meant in other types of models!
By looking at the percentages of light that either reflected, transmitted, or had been absorbed by the cups, we were starting to see what was really going on with the cups! We also took all this data analysis and connected it back to the first model above, as we could now quantify how light was interacting with the cups differently!
Looking at our models made us do some new wondering. If the light can transmit into the cup, then it would make sense it's transforming into heat and warming up the liquid. Any light that would reflect off wouldn't reach the liquid, so it wouldn't warm up from reflected light.
But we're really stumped on the light that gets "stuck" or absorbed into the walls of specific cups. This light never made it into the liquid, so how does light that's absorbed heat up the liquid itself? The walls are next to the liquid...
We're gonna table this idea since it seems kinda tricky, and revisit heat energy that we think also plays a role in rising temperatures of the cups. This is especially true since the cups that were in no light also warmed up! But how?
But we're really stumped on the light that gets "stuck" or absorbed into the walls of specific cups. This light never made it into the liquid, so how does light that's absorbed heat up the liquid itself? The walls are next to the liquid...
We're gonna table this idea since it seems kinda tricky, and revisit heat energy that we think also plays a role in rising temperatures of the cups. This is especially true since the cups that were in no light also warmed up! But how?