SECTION/GROUP PRE-LABORATORY QUESTIONS THERMOCHEMISTRY: ACID-BASE NEUTRALIZATION I.
Consider this coffee cup calorimetry experiment:
a. of water at was poured into of water at in a coffee cup. Calculate the heat capacity of the calorimeter, and the temperature of the contents of the calorimeter equilibrated to before beginning to fall to room temperature. (The density and specific heat of water or any aqueous solution can be assumed to be and , respectively)
b. To the calorimeter, of acetic acid was added to of at and the temperature of the solution equilibrated to . Calculate an enthalpy of neutralization for acetic acid, using the calculated heat capacity of the coffee cup.