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Title: Specific Heat Lab AIM: The aim of this lab is to understand how things heat up - how the temperature of a material changes when heat is donated to it - HYPOTHESIS: VARIABLES: Specific Heat - Specific heat of a material is the amount of heat per unit mass required to raise the temperature of that material by one degree Celsius. MATERIALS: DATA: Brass Table 1 Initial H2O Temp(c) Final H20 Temp(c) Weight (g) Water (mL) Change in Temp(c) Error ± 0.05 0.05 0.005 0 .005 0.10 Trial 1 18.90 20.40 53.45 400.05 1.50 Trial 2 17.80 20.00 53.48 401.00 2.20 Steal Table 1 Initial H2O Temp(c) Final H20 Temp(c) Weight (g) Water (mL) Change in Temp(c) Error ± 0.05 0.05 0.005 0 .005 0.10 Trial 1 18.90 20.00 49.45 400.05 1.10 Trial 2 16.90 19.90 49.50 399.80 3.00 Aluminum Table 1 Initial H2O Temp(c) Final H20 Temp(c) Weight (g) Water (mL) Change in Temp(c) Error ± 0.05 0.05 0.005 0 .005 0.10 Trial 1 18.90 20.20 17.95 400.05 1.30 Trial 2 19.80 21.10 17.95 404.00 1.30 ANALYSIS: Brass Table 2 Specific Heat H2O Mass of H2O H2O Diff. Temp Metal Mass Metal Temp Change Specific Heat A.V. Error (%) Trial 1 4180 0.40005 1.50 0.05345 79.60 589.55 374 55.14 Trial 2 4180 0.401 2.20 0.05348 80.00 861.91 374 126.82 Trial 1 - Brass To find the specific heat of Brass we have to reorder mh2och2o(Ti-Te)metal=mmetalcmetal(Ti-Te)metal to: cmetal=...

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