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    Now it’s time to hire your people. Once you have defined your vision through your Purpose, Mission, and Core Values, you will have no difficulty finding employees whose work ethic parallels your own Vision. If you have created an appropriate business system you will find your employees acclimate rapidly, and harmonize quickly to your system. Those not sharing these values will generally self-select and leave one way or another. Your Business Assumptions Team Assessment: 9 Deadliest Start-up Sins

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    the mass of water from calculation #9, the specific heat of water is 4.184 J/g(oC), and the temperature change of water from calculation #7. (10 points) Mass of water: 74.8g Specific heat of water is 4.184 J/g(oC) Change in temp. of water: 1°C Q = 74.8 * 1 * 4.184 = 312.96 J/g(oC) 11. Use the equation: q = m(SH)ΔT to solve for the specific heat of the metal. For q, you found how much heat was gained by the water so you know that same amount of heat was lost by the metal. Therefore, qmetal

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    H8 HEAT AND SPECIFIC HEAT CAPACITY ENB130 SEM 1 PRAC 2 JOSHUA KEARNEY; n8351937, PARTNER: Mike Lagendyk 2011 Joshua Kearney Queensland university of Technology 5/16/2011 H8 HEAT AND SPECIFIC HEAT CAPACITY ENB130 SEM 1 PRAC 2 JOSHUA KEARNEY; n8351937, PARTNER: Mike Lagendyk 2011 Joshua Kearney Queensland university of Technology 5/16/2011 Aim To measure the Latent heat of fusion of ice. Introduction/ Background Within this experiment all units implemented were converted

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    Valdez BS Chem-3 EXPERIMENT 14- Heat Effects and Calorimetry Objective/ Introduction: Heat is a form of energy, sometimes called thermal energy, which can pass spontaneously from an object at a high temperature to an object at a lower temperature. If the two objects are in contact, they will, given sufficient time, both reach the same temperature. Heat always travels from hot to cold objects and two objects will reach an equilibrium temperature. Heat flow is commonly measured in a device

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    Report | Specific Heat Capacity of Brass | | Jin Jin Shi | 2012/12/6 | Instructor: Mr. Nailer | I. Introduction The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of a solid body depends on its change in temperature (ΔT), its mass (m), and an intrinsic characteristic of the material forming the body called specific heat (cp). The heat is calculated from the equation II. Purpose The purpose of this laboratory is to determine the experimental quantities of heat transfer

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    Introduction According to the New World Encyclopedia, a calorimeter is an instrument used to measure the amount of heat absorbed or released by matter through a physical or chemical reaction. The world’s first ice calorimeter was used by Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre-Simon Laplace to determine the heat produced during various chemical reactions. Their experiments set the foundation for Thermochemistry. Improvements in technology create room for other types of calorimeters such as the brand calorimeter

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    calculate the heat added to the water sample. Therefore the mass of the sample is needed to perform this calculation. Part 3: Two samples of water are heated from 20ºC to 60ºC. One of the samples requires twice as much heat to bring about this temperature change as the other. How do the masses of the two water samples compare? Explain your reasoning. Answer: Given; Temperature change (∆T) = 60 – 20 = 40˚C The first sample requires heat q1 = qJ (say) …….1 Then the second sample required heat q2 =

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    Lab6 latent heat Essay

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    6 report Anita Dey Thursday 8am Abstract: We recently performed a liquid nitrogen experiment in finding the Latent heat of the substance. We isolated two parts of the experiment in order to find out how much evaporation of the liquid nitrogen was from the surroundings B and how much evaporation from the electricity G. 1. When a substance is undergoing a phase transition, more heat (energy) is being added to the Substance but its temperature (a way of measuring its energy) is not changing. Where

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    Ice Calorimetry

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    melting of the ice was called latent heat. So, when I was given the chance to choose any topic for this IA, my mind immediately went to this fact. Going back to when I first learned about this topic, I really enjoyed solving problems that involved heat and heat equations. Therefore, I want to determine the constant for the latent heat of fusion between water and ice and verify if the value is constant for all temperatures. Background Information Latent heat is the amount of energy either absorbed

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    done by measuring heat combustion in kJ/g of fuel. It was also to compare experimental and theoretical energy values as well as determine the specific heat of an unknown metal to identify it. Results: When conducting part one of the experiment, Paraffin combustion, the candle melted quickly and the flame atop the candle was very small. The wax pooled on top of the paraffin rather than following the canal dug into the side. For the second part of the experiment, the specific heat of an unknown metal

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