This experiment aims to compare the elasticity of vulcanized rubber and unvulcanized rubber by measuring the change in length of rubber strips when weights are added and removed. The manipulated variable is the type of rubber (vulcanized or unvulcanized), the responding variable is the length of the rubber strip, and the fixed variable is the size and mass of the weights. The hypothesis is that vulcanized rubber will be more or less elastic than unvulcanized rubber. The procedures involve hanging rubber strips, measuring initial lengths, adding weights, measuring lengths, removing weights, and measuring final lengths.