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Teresa Cox
Wilson K-8 School

Experiment Overview
Determine if temperature in space has an effect on electrical components.

Experiment Description
Students will determine whether the temperature in space has an effect on resistors, transistors, or thermistors. The experiment will test the limits of a normal electronic circuit. The electricity originates in the battery pack, which then transfers the current into the breadboard.
From there, the current flows through the resistors, transistors and thermistor. Next, the current will run to the digital voltmeter, which will provide the amount of current running from the experiment.

Hypothesis
H1: Radiation from the sun will cause the resistance value decrease in the components.

Analysis
Voltage data on Earth will be compared to voltage data in space to determine if space has any effect on voltage.