Physics Report: Calorimetry.

Name: Juan Carlos Suazo Irachez

Directions: Watch carefully the two Calorimetry videos embedded into the Schoology
page, and answer the following questions. You will explain what is Specific Heat
capacity from the video on Specific Heat.

1. What is calorimetry?
 Is the precise measurement of the heat flow into or out of a system for chemical and
physical process.
2. What home materials can you use to build a simple calorimeter?
 Staked cups
 Thermometer
 Isolated lid
 Stirrer
 water
3. Explain what is Specific Heat Capacity of a substance.
 The heat capacity of a substance is defined as the amount of heat required to raise the
temperature of a material by one degree Celsius. However, the specific heat capacity is
the amount of heat energy needed to raise 1kg of a substance by 1 degree Celsius.
4. Try to find some 5 -6 steps on how to use a calorimeter in order to find the
specific heat of a substance.

Step 1: We put water to boil and obtain a sample of a metal or other substance, we should
record the mass of the sample.
Step 2: After obtaining the sample we put it into the boiling water, after a while of the sample
being in the water it should obtain the same temperature of the boiling water.
Step 3: Put the thermometer in the calorimeter.

Step 4: We transfer the sample substance the water in the calorimeter and immediately place
the lid, the thermometer should stick out of the hole.
Step 5: Wait until the thermometer stops rising.

5. Attach an image of a simple calorimeter. Label its parts.