Conclusion

     We accept our hypothesis. Our data was an excellent representation of our hypothesis. It turned out that, as we had expected, the farther from the splash site, the less amount of water is present, which is what we hypothesized. Unfortunately we cannot think of any professional applications to this subject of water balloons, but we did think that this applies to just crazy kids having fun. One question this did lead us to also for a future experiment, was a future product. We were wondering, after concluding our data collection, if there was a way to make a balloon that would distribute all water equally. That might not be possible, because we concluded that the way splashes work does not have to do with the balloons at all. After viewing many splashes, with just a water drop for example, we decided that it is just the nature of water. When a splash is created, we theorize that all the water wants to get out as fast as possible. All the water goes in an outward direction. The reason that some drops go farther than other is this: momentum. Momentum can be applied here in two ways. When the water balloon hits the ground, the drops of water have to go somewhere. Because of P=MV, the bigger drops of water will not go as fast, or as far, as the smaller drops of water. That would explain it. We also think that some of the water drops would hit into the other ones, and if not enough time is allotted for hydrogen bonds to form, then the water drops would bounce off each other, one flying farther and faster, and the other one left behind. Also, because of momentum, if the water molecules actually formed hydrogen bonds, the slower moving molecules would slow the faster moving one attaching to them down. This is our theory. It all has to do with momentum. It would definitely explain why there is a lot of water in the middle, not very much on the outside, and it would explain why the water in the balloons is not distributed equally.

     For a future experiment, we would definitely change the environment. We would have a machine that would do the dropping of the balloons, so that every balloon would land in the same place. We would also have a measurement of water to will each balloon with, say two cups each for example, so that the balloon size would be as close as possible. We could not get that, although we tried as hard as possible, but all the balloons were different sizes. We would also setup everything, the tuna cans and splash zone, etc, on concrete. This would make it so no dip would form, and that a large, deep pool would not form. This would also make it so rocks would not get into the tuna cans, because there would be no rocks to be splashed. With the tuna cans, also, we would have them going in four different directions, so that we can get four times the amount of data points, for more superb accuracy. This would be much better than one. We would also use an electric mass to find all of our data points. When doing this we could also explore possible areas related to this experiment. For example, we could find out how much momentum a typical water balloon needs to break and create a splash. Another one would be to find the correlation between the momentum of the balloon as it splashes and how far the splash goes. Once again, though, we accept our hypothesis, and that is our theory why water balloon splashes work the way they do.