General Safety Guidelines

Your teacher has kindly as to set up five tables, each with something on it for you to investigate. The items on each table are there to help you get the information you need to fill out this printable worksheet, and to take the short quiz below.

Post-Lab Quiz

1. Would you say polymers:
   a. usually conduct electricity
   b. sometimes conduct electricity
   c. usually do not conduct electricity

2. Which would you say are denser?
   a. polymers
   b. metals

3. Would you say polymers are:
   a. usually strong
   b. sometimes strong
   c. usually not strong

4. Would you say metals are:
   a. strong
   b. not strong

5. Would you say metals:
   a. conduct electricity
   b. do not conduct electricity

6. Would you say polymers:
   a. usually soften when hot
   b. sometimes soften when hot
   c. usually do not soften when hot

7. Would you say metals are:
   a. ductile
   b. not ductile

8. Would you say metals:
   a. soften when hot
   b. do not soften when hot

9. Would you say polymers are:
   a. usually ductile
   b. sometimes ductile
   c. usually not ductile

10. If you had to make the following items, would you make them out of a metal or a polymer? Remember, that for some items either will work.
    a. a life preserver
    b. a water pipe
    c. a lightning rod

Mechanical Properties of Polymers — learn the difference between strength and toughness, and much more, part of The Macrogalleria from the University of Southern Mississippi.