WEEK 6 GROUP F DATA: Pottery Firing

This week my lab group, group F, fired the pots we had made during week 3. As the data recorder, I noted the temperature of the fire and a few specific pots throughout the process, as well the times at which we performed different steps. The specific pots listed below in the “Pot Temps” column are my pot, which was made from arb clay (pot A), Elek’s pot (pot B) and Hope’s pot (pot C), which was chosen despite not being in my group because the top of it was partially visible through much of the firing. The “Fire Temp” column gives the temperature of the fire measured during the first part of the firing, but one hour in I switched to measuring the “Exterior Log Temperature” (meaning the temperature of one of the logs on the outside of the fire, as opposed to one that was further into the layers of the stack). Below the table is the same data in graph form, in order to better see the how the pot, fire, and log temperatures fluctuated throughout the process. It is important to note that it was difficult to get accurate temperature readings with the laser temperature readers we were using, and many of the fluctuations in temperature can be accounted for by my measuring a different part of the pot/fire each time or inaccurate readings.