Experiments On Solar Panels

Experiment with solar power by building your own solar powered robot or oven or by testing ways to speed up an existing solar car.

Experiments on solar panels.

A future experiment would use mirrors in front of the solar panel rather than bi convex lenses which would increase the amount of sunlight coming into contact with the photovoltaic cells. Measure the water temperature and set one cup on each paper. Have your child make a guess on which cube will melt faster. As the one in the sun turns into a puddle first explain that the heat energy from the sun made it melt faster.

Place one cube directly in the sun and the other in full shade. Cover one of the glasses on white paper with plastic. The experiments test how radiation and rocket launches could affect dye sensitized solar cells which the students say are safer and easier to make than traditional solar panels. Have a discussion and make predictions about what you think will happen to the water in each glass.

Fill each cup with the same amount of liquid of the same cool temperature. Or analyze how solar cells or panels work.