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Essay on Heat: Temperature and Water

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Heat and Energy Transfer Lab
Materials needed:
Part 1: bowls (not included in the lab kit; use cooking pots or plastic containers- something large enough to fit your hand) ice (not included in the lab kit) thermometers Part 2 test tubes – use three similar glasses or cups water various household materials for insulation stove or microwave to heat up water

Part 1: Heat transfer and human sensation

1. Pour warm water in the bowl on the left, cold water in the bowl on the right, and room temperature water in the bowl in the middle. Room temperature water should be around 20-22°C.

2. Put your left hand in the warm water bowl and your right hand in the cold water bowl. Leave them in those bowls for one minute. How do …show more content…

To keep things hot you would need something that could wrap completely around the object and keep the heat inside.

2. Choose two of the materials from your ideas. Choose those that you have readily available. Write which ideas you have chosen below.
I have chosen the towel because, everyone can experience when they get out of the shower and they hit the air outside of the shower it is cooler. Once you wrap the towel around you it starts by helping keep some of that heat in. My next would be tin foil because while trying to cook of grill with something covered in tin foil it not only helps by speeding up the cook time but also by keeping it warm once its off the grill.___

3. Get three test tubes (cups or glasses of similar sizes and texture). Two of these will be your experimental test tubes- insulate them according to the two ideas you chose above (for example, you might wrap one test tube in aluminum foil and the other in another material). The third test tube will be your control test tube. We won’t insulate this one.

4. For your experiment, you are going to measure the temperature of the water in each test tube every 30 seconds for 5 minutes. You will need a data table that records these temperature readings for all three test tubes. Design your own data table below. You can use Excel or make a table in Word, using Insert ->Table options.

5. Pour a sufficient amount of water (enough to fill up all three of your test tubes with the

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