Answer 1:
There are some aspects of your experiment that are very well designed. For example, taking four
sets of data (step 8) to get an average, and using
hot water or ice baths to achieve different honey
temperatures (make sure you leave the honey in
contact with the hot water or the ice for long
enough, though, to be sure that it has
equilibrated to the water temperature!)
I'm not sure what you had in mind with the paperclip though. Paperclips are made of iron, which becomes magnetized in the presence of a magnet, as you point out; this allows you to pick up the paperclip using the magnet. The magnetic interaction between the paperclip and the magnet is unlikely to be affected by the honey (unless you coated the paperclip so thickly that the magnet couldn't reach it, in which case you'd
struggle to pick it up in the first place). So
this won't be a good measure of the honey's
viscosity.
So instead you need to think about something that you can measure, that will change (preferably by a lot) when the viscosity of
the honey changes. Remember that things that are less viscous are more "runny". So if you want to stick with your current experimental set-up, you might think about obtaining a measure of how easy it is to move the paperclip through the honey, or how quickly the honey runs off the
paperclip...
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