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Homeostasis and Temperature Regulation
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Lab # 11 Homeostasis and Temperature Regulation Alyssa Jayne Comberbach 12/09/04 Aim: To observe whether a body in water loses heat energy faster then a body in air. Hypothesis: When a person goes swimming, they begin to feel cold faster then a person standing on the outside of the pool. This is due to the nature of conduction, convection and heat. Convection is the transfer of heat energy in a gas or liquid by movement of currents. Conduction is the transfer and distribution of heat energy from one atom to another. I hypothesize that a body in water would lose heat energy faster then a body in air of the same temperature, and that the rate of heat loss of the body in water would be around double that of the body in air. The molecules in a liquid, such as water, are far closer together then the molecules of a gas. This would mean that...
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