Heat transfer - We travelled to the McDonalds in Notting Hill Gate hoping to find out how McDonalds packaged their food so that it can remain hotter for longer but it turns out that they were not interested in packaging food in terms of heat loss.
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Heat transfer coursework AVCE SCIENCE Unit 4 Introduction We travelled to the McDonalds in Notting Hill Gate hoping to find out how McDonalds packaged their food so that it can remain hotter for longer but it turns out that they were not interested in packaging food in terms of heat loss. McDonalds were more interested on which material would be the cheapest and would look nicer if it had the McDonalds logo printed on it. They were also very interested in the design of the package, which is designed in such a way to guarantee that the product receives the customer in high quality. However referring to their graph (refer to graph labelled Q P C Patty overview) when they used polystyrene packaging it helped keep the food hotter for longer because it was a good insulator because it had holes, which air would fill and air is a bad conductor. The quick...

