Title of Project

Pressure and Concentration Effects on Melting Time of Ice Block

Abstract

Ice and snow on the road during snowy days can affect driving and create potential safety hazards. In addition to rising temperatures, some other factors such as pressure from cars driving on ice and adding salt accelerate ice melting and help clean the road. This study aimed to explore the effect of pressure on ice melting time in different saline concentrations. The study consisted of saline concentrations of 0%, 3%, 6%, 9%. The experimental design was at room temperature, with 15 ice blocks, a timer, and a strong metal string with 1-5kg weights in each concentration group. Both pressure and concentration accelerated ice melting time. Higher pressure and higher concentration meet the requirement to accelerate ice melting. These preliminary results may provide insights into accelerating ice melting, which may allow for helping clean the ice road.

Biographies

Jingyi Ying studies in the Vantage One Science Program which combines language courses and academic science knowledge. Her main focus is collecting and analyzing data based on computational and mathematical skills. She is largely interested in majoring in Statistics in the future.

Trista Ding studies in the Vantage One Science program which combines knowledge of science courses and language studies for her. Her main focus is investigating and studying scientific theories in physics and chemistry through innovative experimental methods. She is also interested in doing data analysis in major of Statistics in the future.

Liyuan Wang studies in the Vantage One Science program which provides the platform of combining language knowledge and science courses as the transition period for first-year students. Her main focus is observing the relationship between real-life situations with scientific experiments. She is also interested in planning the experimental methods for the stricter and ordered procedures and may major in environmental science in the future.

Eric Ding studies in Vantage One Science program. His main focus is planning projects and designing experiments on the basis of scientific theories. He is also interested in observing the connection between data sets because he believes data interpretation is an important way to reach an accurate conclusion. In the future, he wants to learn more techniques in dealing with data in major of statistics.