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Heat Loss Investigation Introduction My investigation is to find out the rate of which heat is lost or transferred. Heat loss happens when heat energy is exchanged between materials that are both at a two different temperature. There are different ways in which heat is lost they are: - conduction, convection, radiation and evaporation. All these processes can happen to heat. How am I going to carry out the investigation? I will be investigating the heat loss in animals and will be using cans to discover which can looses the most temperature. To do this experiment I will be using small, medium and large cans to perform as small, medium and large animals. Water will be positioned in these three different sized cans and the first measurement will be taken at the same temperature to keep it a fair test. I will be taking about eight readings at two minute intervals. Then I...

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