CHEM 1B Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Sodium Hydroxide, Sodium Chloride

• School: UCSB
• Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
• Course: CHEM 1B
• Professor: Kunkel

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The purpose of this lab is to understand the relationships between heat, heat capacity, and temperature. In addition, a calorimeter was calibrated, and then used to measure the heat of the solution, the heat of the metal, and the heat of neutralization. In part 1, the change in temperature of water was measured in order to calculate ccal, the specific heat capacity of our calorimeter. This is a measure of the insulating properties of our. Conducting this part of the experiment twice ensures the quality of the data by minimizing the impact of errors made during the measurement. The calculated average value for ccal was 11. 69 j. In part 2 of this experiment, the specific heat capacity of an unknown metal was determined by boiling water in a test tube with the metal inside it in order to raise the temperature of the unknown metal. The specific heat capacity, cmetal, was determined to be.