UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY,

Taxila

APPLIED PHYSICS
(LAB REPORT 06)
SUBMITTED BY:
Name: MUHAMMAD NAJAM UL HASSAN
Registration No. 20-ME-4
Section: D
Subject: LAB Applied Physics
Department: Mechanical Engineering

SUBMITTED TO:
DR. KULSOOM RAHIM
 Lab 6
INTRODUCTION:
It is based on the fact that when a hot substance is
mixed with a cold substance, the hot body loses heat and the cold body
absorbs heat until thermal equilibrium is attained. At equilibrium, final
temperature of mixture is measured. The specific heat of the substance is
calculated with the help of the law of heat exchange.
Basically, we check that hot body lose heat and cold body observe heat after it
both bodies will attain equilibrium with each other.

SPECIFIC HEAT CAPACITY:

Specific heat capacity is defined as the
amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kg of a substance by 1
kelvin.

FORMULA:
Q=mc ∆ T

Q = heat energy
m = mass
c = specific heat capacity
∆ T = change in temperature

UNIT:
 J kg−1 K−1
First we calculate the mass by using the volume:
We know that,
m
ρ=
V
m=ρ ×V

Where,
ρ = density
m = mass
V = Volume

 Mass of water:
m=997× 1.6
m=1595 g

 Mass of iron cube:

m=7.87 × 1000
m=7870 g

 Mass of brick:
m=1.92 ×1000
m=1920 g

 Mass of oil:
m=0.917 × 1.6
m=1.467 g
EXPERIMENT:
This experiment involves the following steps,

1. Take a break fill with water and put it on flame to heat it in

order to get water boil and stream produce when it boils at
100°c. (in order to get the reading on thermometer).
It is noted that, on thermometer at where third tick is shown it
show 100°c and at second tick it is 50°c. and at single tick shows 25°c
room temperature as shown in the figure,

2. Take a brick at room temperature and heat it by putting on a

flame.
 3. Put the heated brick in water (water must be at room
temperature mean 25°c if not that start cooling down it to get
desire temperature of water).
It is noted that when put highly heated brick in water as
thermometers are attached with both bodies as shown in the figure,
  Heat released by the brick = heat observe by the water
 Hence brick instantly cool down and attain equilibrium with
water.
 Specific heat of Brick:
We know that,
m 2 (T m −T 2 )
c 1= c
m 1 (T 1−T m ) 2

Where,
c 2 = Specific heat capacity of water

m 2=¿mass of water

T 1= Initial temperature of material

T 2 =Room temperature

c 1= Specific heat capacity of material

m 1= mass of material

T m= temperature at equilibrium

By putting the values,

1595( 40−25)
c 1= × 4184000
1920(100−40)

c 1=868 J kg−1 oC
Now,
By linking both heaters both cubes receive same amount of energy.

We heat the iron cube to 100 degree.

We know,
QFe = mFecFeΔT
= mFecFe(TFe − Ti)
Where,
T i=room temperature

So,
Q Fe=7870 × 0.45(100−25)
Q Fe=26 KJ

As both the heaters are linked, the total energy absorbed by the both cubes
are same.
So we can write that,
Qbr = mbrcbrΔT = mbrcbr(Tbr − Ti) = QFe
QFe = mbrcbr(Tbr − Ti)
QFe
c br =
mbr (T br −T i )
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c br =
1920(1 50−100)
Jo
c br =2.766 C
g

QUESTION:
If the specific heat of brick is greater than the specific heat of iron, how is it
possible for the brick cube to have a higher final temperature than the iron cube?

ANSWER:
Yes, brick has greater specific heat than iron. But the final temperature of the
brick is greater than iron, it is because The cubes absorb the same amount of energy, but
there are many fewer brick molecules than iron molecules. As a result, each brick molecule
receives more energy than each iron molecule, and raises the brick temperature. The
higher specific heat of the brick means it will convert more of the absorbed energy into
waste heat.

CONCLUSION:
In this lab, we observe the phenomenon of the heat transforming
from one body to another body. We also learned that the specific heat of a material can be
calculated. We calculated the specific heat of brick and iron as well.

THE END