Mass Lab Station # 1

                        What is happening to the mass?? 

This station was the station with the fibers that we had to pull apart.  It was asking what would happen to the mass when it is pulled apart.  

The claim for this station was that when the fiber was pulled apart, the mass was no different from when it wasn't pulled apart.  My evidence that I have is from the data that we took from everyone that did this experiment.  The range of people's masses that they recorded were from -.028 to .01.  all these number's though, stayed they same when they pulled apart the fibers.  When my partner and I did this station, we predicted that the mass would stay the same, the only thing that we knew was going to be different was how much space it took up.  My reasoning for the mass staying they same is that when you pulled the fibers apart you did not add anything or subtract anything from your system.  When you first started this experiment, there was a certain amount of particles in the fiber.  When you pulled they fiber apart, it just expanded and did not lose any particles, there was the same amount of particles when you pulled it apart as there was when you first started.  The only difference from the beginning to the end, is that the particles were closer together and more compacted, when you pulled them apart they were just more spread out from each other.  Like I said before, nothing was taken from the system, and nothing was added.  The only difference in this project was that the fiber was more spread out in the end.