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Lab Report- Penny Drop Lab
Abstract: This lab is called the Penny Drop Lab. In this lab, your goal is to find out how many drops of water you can fit on the top surface of a penny. You are trying to find the surface tension between two liquids. In this case, we used soapy water and plain water. Adding soap ends up reducing the surface tension of the water. When you add soap it makes the amount of drops decrease in comparison to the water.
Introduction: In this experiment, it deals with surface tension. In easier terms, surface tension is basically a property of the surface of a liquid. This allows the specific liquid, in this case water and soapy water, to resist an external force. In this lab, the water molecules stick strongly together and

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