Responding+with+wonderment+and+awe

__Responding with wonderment and awe:__

__My Understanding of this Habit:__ Responding with wonderment and awe means to continuously be passionate about Chemistry through enjoying the results provided by each experiment. This may mean testing new hypothesis or taking inductive approaches to find out how variables may or may not influence each other.

__How I applied this habit to Chemistry:__ During the Voltage Cell Experiment, Philip and I were initially unable to construct a battery with a voltage output of 1.5 volts. At first the maximum voltage we were able to produce through the battery was only around 0.8 volts. We manipulated variables such as, the materials used to make the salt bridge, and the type of electrodes, but this did not influence the voltage output significantly. So, we decided to use knowledge previously acquired from the unit on factors influencing a chemical reaction, by changing the temperature of each solution, to determine how this may affect the voltage output. This seemed like a very feasible approach, as temperature could be easily manipulated and the correlation between temperature and voltage output would be very clear (If there was going to be any correlation). However, while conducting the experiment, we met certain difficulties, like not being able to precisely manipulate temperature to a certain value, and the use of a plastic-mercury thermometer only increased the effort required to track the approximate temperature increase. Surprisingly, the voltage output slowly rose by each temperature increment of 9 degrees Celsius, producing somewhat of a linear trend. We responded with wonderment and awe by "rejoicing" (Conducting more trials for each temperature interval) as we were able to come up with an experiment that we initially though would not work. Here is a picture of my group's battery experimental setup.