Class: BE210
Group: 101_A1
Members:

Arnoley Abcejo
Dhinakaran Chinappen
Matthew Chu
Michael Persson
Benjamin Weinberg

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The primary objectives of this experiment are to determine the calcium content via chemical extraction and spectrophotometric investigation of calcium from 10 chicken bone samples and investigate the relationship between the calcium concentration in the bone samples and the associated energy required to fracture the bones.  The fracture energies will be determined through the pendulum fracture technique as outlined previously in Experiment 4: Fracture Strength of Chicken Bones: Impact Pendulum Testing. 


Hypothesis: There is a positive linear correlation between the amount of calcium present in the chicken bones and bone fracture strength.