How Insulators Effect the Temperature of Water
II. Introduction:
Background - Thermal energy is the total kinetic energy of the particles of a substance. And, kinetic energy is energy that a body possesses by virtue of being in motion. Heat is the transfer of energy between objects that are different temperatures. Along with this, temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of the molecules in an object. Heat transfer is “If there is a temperature difference in a system, heat will naturally move from high to low temperatures” (http://www.physics4kids.com/files/thermo_transfer.html). There are three types of Heat Energy Transfer, which is conduction, convection, and radiation. An example of heat transfer is if one part of
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Purpose / Problem - The purpose of this lab was to determine which insulator would be the most effective in keeping the water closest to its original temperature. c. Hypothesis / Prediction - If the temperature of the boiling water drops quickly, then it shows how saran wrap is not a strong insulator because it did not keep the water hot.
III. Procedure:
Materials - Beaker, Hot Plate, Saran Wrap, Stopwatch, Thermometer, Water
Methods - In the beginning of the lab, the beaker filled with boiling water was taken off of the hot place and saran wrap was wrapped around it. After that, a thermometer was placed inside of the water. Next, the temperature was checked and recorded every two minutes over a course of twenty minutes. The temperatures were recorded to see quickly the temperature of boiling water decreased over time. All of the groups did the exact same thing except with different insulators.
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The group first noticed that from 0-2 minutes and from 2-4 minutes, the water’s temperature decreased a lot. After four minutes, the temperature started to decrease at a steady pace. Within the first four minutes, the water temperature decreased from 100℉ to 80℉. Also, the group notice that the temperature of the boiling water with saran wrap decreased faster and dropped more than all of the other groups. This shows that saran wrap is not a good insulator because the temperature dropped so much in a short period of
A. Water boils at 100°C at sea level. If the water in this experiment did not boil at 100°C, what
Each student got a white tub and filled it up with tap water from the sink. Students were paired with two or three other people and formed their groups. Each group got 1 stopwatch, 1 thermometer, and also learned how to each other’s pulse. The temperature of the water used from the sink were adjusted beforehand to about 23°C; room temperature. Water temperature was not re-adjusted to be hotter or colder.
14. The experiment was repeated with each water temperature until all tests had been conclusively completed.
The materials we used for this experiment were two aluminum soda cans, water, ice, a graduated cylinder, a metal saucepan, a hot plate, and a
This experiment actually introduces the basic functions and the use of a hot water tank.
Problem: the temperature of water affects the amount of water droplets that can fit on the penny because of density. Density is the degree of compactness of a substance. Our phenomena is temperature. The science behind the phenomena is which temperature on a penny can hold more water. My hypothesis is that hot water can hold more water.
There will be several water baths at different temperatures in order to do the tests on at different temperatures. The water baths may not provide accurate temperature e.g. (20 ºC may be 21 ºC) so I will carry out each test at each temp on the same day to ensure a fair test. So I will be measuring the actual temperature (using a thermometer) and the precision of the thermometer is to 1d.p which is 0.5 ºC.
Our thermos was quite effective in insulating hot water, as the graph was very flat. This indicates that as time passed, the temperature of the hot water dropped very little, resembling an exponential decay graph. Trial one and trial two presented very similar results and a constant rate of change, which further reinforces the effectiveness of the thermos. The second trial basically presented identical data to the first trial, which can be seen on the graph as the two lines are merged together. The lumps in the graph for the control were resulted from the accidental moving of the temperature probe or the occasionally currents of air flowing across the cup,
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Then the first flask was removed and placed on a warmer till the temperature reached 35 degrees Celsius or 95 degrees Fahrenheit. The flask was then put back into the set up with the tubes connecting the solution to the water flask. Again four trials were done in intervals of 10 minutes apart with the data recorded. Then the solution flask was
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The boiling tubes were then placed in a water bath with a fixed temperature at 40˚C.
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