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Ice Calorimetry Lab

Keywords: Energy and Entropy, Integrated Laboratory, Ice, Heat Capacity, Entropy, Latent Heat, Phase Transitions, Small Group Activity

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Highlights of the activity

  1. This integrated laboratory activity is designed to help students understand heat, heat capacity and entropy.
  2. Students use a water proof resistor to heat ice water while measuring the temperature.
  3. In the lab write-up, students analyze their data to find heat capacity, latent heat, and changes in entropy.

Reasons to spend class time on the activity

This lab gives students a chance to take data on the first day of class (or later, but I prefer to do it the first day of class). It provides an immediate context for thermodynamics, and also gives them a chance to experimentally measure a change in entropy… although I do the class before teaching them anything about entropy except how to find it by integrating dQ/T.

Reflections

Instructor's Guide

Student Handouts

eeicehand.pdf

eeicehand.tex


Authors: David Roundy
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