Solar Energy

In class we partook in a small solar experiment in which we connected a small solar cell to the NXT adapter to measure the cells voltage with a probe.  Placing a flashlight at varying distances from the solar cell we collected data aligned with each attempt.  The chart below exhibits that the voltages acquired by the solar cell gradually decreases as the flashlight is distanced further away.

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Placing for different colored film filters over the flashlight for the specific distances measures how different light spectrums affected the voltage of the solar cells.  Holga-Color-Filter-Set-CFS-121_grande

 

After conducting the experiment in the same manner as we did for our first data collection, we came across these results for the colored filters;

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