ELECTRIC AND

WATER TO: MISS

SUSANNA

PRESENTED BY 1108 MEMBERS

FINAL PROJECT popsarut 01
thanaree 02
thanawin 03
khwanchanok 04
 Introduction

          As a kid, we all saw lots of cartoon and in those

cartoon there was a funny scene about a wet character getting
electric shock or that scene when electricity went into water and
make it unpassable. This made us all curious about whether or not
water conduct electricity. If it does then is it really water? Or the
impurities/minerals inside the water, so that’s what we’re going to find
out in this experiment. Does water conduct electricity and if it does
which type of water conduct best? That also leads us to the next
point. How can we create a circuit for testing the conductivity of
water? What do we need and how do we connect components?
I          n this project, we are going to do two things. The
first is thing we want to build a simple circuit and try out the things
needed to make a working circuit with as less component as possible.
The second one is to figure out which one of the different types of
water can be an conductor and also try to find the reason why it
could conduct electricity.
 objective

- To be able to construct a simple circuit

- To prove that pure water cannot conduct
electricity
- Learn more about quality of water
To be able to build a simple circuit.
 Material

Water Samples:
Tap water
Rain water
Salted water
Distilled / Deionized water
set up
 Discussion of physic concept

    Electricity is a form of energy which relates to the movement

of electron, proton, or other types of particle which has the same
potentials to proton or electron. Electricity can be transform to other
types of energy, e.g., heat, light, or movement.

Electric conductor : An object or type of material which allow

electricity to flow through. In this project, we are going to do
experiment to prove the method that pure water cannot be an
electric conductor by using 5 different types of water including pure
water.

Electric Current : The flow of the electric charge which relates to

voltage and resistance. The formula is I =QT which I is stand for
electric current, Q is stand for amount of electric charge in Coulomb,
and T is stand for time. This also can related to Ohm’s law (V = IR).
In the experiment, we need to connect the circuit.

Electric Circuit: A circuit is composed of 3 main components containing

an energy source, wires and a device. To create a circuit, we must
have these 3 component in order to make it work. An energy
source is the provider of energy to the whole circuit. The wires are
the path that connects the circuit together. The device is the
receiver of the energy that consumes or turns energy into other
form to perform its function.
 Discussion of physic concept

Salt’s Conductivity: The structure of the salt is NaCl which is the

combination between Na (Sodium) and Cl (Chloride). When salt is
dissolved in water, it divides into Na and Cl. Sodium is cation which is
the positive charge ion and Cl is anion which is the negative charge
ion. Then, Sodium losses their ions while Chloride gains ions from
Sodium. It causes the moving of electron between them. This is why
salt water can be an electric conductor.
 Data

Data:
The simple circuit we made:
 analysis

         The simple circuit worked successfully. We used only

batteries, wires and the light bulb. The number one rule that we
needed to follow is to connect everything starting from the positive
terminal of the batteries by wires, to the devices and back to the
negative terminal of the batteries. Now, as electric flows from the
positive terminal, we need to arrange other components accordingly
to that. The LED’s legs are separated into positive leg which is
needed to be connected to the wires that electricity flows from and
negative leg (for what we call it informally).
          In the experiment, only the salted water makes the
bulb lit up while other water samples does not. In tap water, there
are certainly some components inside the water, since it is not really
clean at the first place. The salt water also contains salt as its
component. However, the deionized and rain water doesn’t really
contain any component inside due to their well known purity. Thus,
the component inside salt water, which is purely salt, is the
component that makes water a conductor, while unknown components
inside tap water makes it a poor conductor and the purity of water
makes itself a resistor. 
 conclusion

       To build a simple circuit, we needed to follow some of the

rules in order for the circuit to be complete and closed. The legs of
devices are supposed to be connected in the right path and the
whole circuit must be connected altogether.
       From the experiment, salt water is the only type of water
which makes the LED lights up because salts are electrolytes, thus
making the whole solution electrolyte. With salt, there are more ion
within the solution due to the separation of positively charged sodium
ion (Na) and negatively charged chloride ion (Cl). This enables more
movement of electrons that lights up the LED when adding electrolyte
substance into the water.
 Recommendation

To make our experiment easier next time, we could try a higher amp
battery because the reading was too low for it to show up on our
ammeter. Also, we could find a better amp and voltmeter to measure
the current and the voltage because our unit doesn’t work properly.
Another thing that we could improve on is that we couldn’t get the
material fast enough due being unable to find it as well, so our
project starts much later than other group.

Reference

https://sites.google.com/site/mechatronicett09/1
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/add_aqa_pre_2011/
atomic/atomstrucrev1.shtml 
https://www.reference.com/science/vinegar-conduct-electricity-
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