Showing posts with label Energy and Phase Changes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Energy and Phase Changes. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Energy Test Reflection

We took our unit test for Energy. This whole unit flew by as there were only two lectures and one lab, and everything was pretty straightforward. Thus, I felt like the test was pretty simple and nothing to stress over this weekend. 
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Specific Heat of a Metal Lab

We did a lab to measure the specific heats of copper and lead by heating the metals in a hot water bath and figuring out the variables for MCAT. I'm pretty happy because our copper trial yielded only a 4% error for the specific heat!