thermochemistry project
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- Project Question: thermochemistry
- Project Due Date: my investigation plan is due tomorrow which is november 17. my science project is to be completed by spring
- Project Status: I am conducting my research
thermochemistry project
I am working on my investigation plan an I need to compare my results to somthing. I need a control. My project is comparing the accuracy and precision of a homemade calorimeter versus a lab calorimeter. I use the equation q=mCsp(delta)t. I'm using metals copper and aluminum and I have the Csp and I will ise the same mass for each calorimeter. All I need is somthing to compare my results with
Re: thermochemistry project
Hi sharpie18.
Are you investigating whether a homemade calorimeter is just as accurate as a lab calorimeter? If so, then your control (baseline) would be the lab calorimeter. You will compare your homemade calorimeter results to your lab colorimeter results. Using some standard (you will need to define this before your experiment), you can then determine whether the homemade calorimeter is just as good as (or better) than the lab colorimeter.
Hope this helps...good luck!
Are you investigating whether a homemade calorimeter is just as accurate as a lab calorimeter? If so, then your control (baseline) would be the lab calorimeter. You will compare your homemade calorimeter results to your lab colorimeter results. Using some standard (you will need to define this before your experiment), you can then determine whether the homemade calorimeter is just as good as (or better) than the lab colorimeter.
Hope this helps...good luck!
Deana
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- Posts: 2
- Joined: Sun Nov 16, 2008 7:30 pm
- Occupation: student
- Project Question: thermochemistry
- Project Due Date: my investigation plan is due tomorrow which is november 17. my science project is to be completed by spring
- Project Status: I am conducting my research
Re: thermochemistry project
Thanks for the reply! I never thought of using the lab calorimeter as the object to compare to since theoretically you should get the same results every time.