E106/E107: Specific Heat Capacity/Latent Heat of Fusion

BARBERO, Nick Earl B.

nicer2000barbero@gmail.com/2017141756/CE-1
PHYS101L-B4 GROUP 5

PROGRAM OUTCOME A. Ability to apply knowledge

of mathematics, science and engineering
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PROGRAM OUTCOME G. Ability to communicate

effectively
Presentation / Graph, Figures and
Tables (15)

PROGRAM OUTCOME B. Ability to design and

conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and
interpret data
Results and Discussion (15)

Conclusion / Error Analysis (15)

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techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools
necessary for engineering practice
Application (5)

Performance

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 January 10, 2019
E106/E107: Specific Heat Capacity/Latent Heat of Fusion
Nick Earl B. Barbero
(School of Civil Engineering, Mapúa University, Philippines)

Results and Discussion

Heat has always been one of the causes when something undergoes a change that alters that something’s properties
whether it’s a living or non-living thing. From contact metamorphism on rocks, where rocks undergo a change caused
by heat being in contact with the rock to incubation of eggs, where body heat, solar heat, and other types of heat
develops an egg until it hatches. Heat in physics is the energy transferred when two bodies that have different
temperatures comes in contact together as the result of temperature difference. This transfer of heat usually causes the
object to have a change in temperature either increasing the temperature if the object is the colder one or decreasing its
temperature if it is the hotter body.

The first part of the experiment is about specific heat capacity and how heat transfers between two bodies that
have different temperatures. The experiment started with heating a beaker filled with 3/4 water and placing a metal in
the heated water inside the beaker which is boiling to increase the temperature of the metal. This metal will be
identified as the first body in the experiment. The second body of the experiment will use a calorimeter filled with tap
water and will receive the heated metal from the beaker with boiling water. Since the first body is a heated metal which
will be placed in the second body which is the calorimeter with tap water, the experiment resulted in the metal’s
temperature decreasing while the temperature of the water plus the calorimeter increased.

The second part of the experiment which is about latent heat of fusion is fairly similar to the first part with some
differences in materials. Instead of the first body using a metal which was heated in a boiling water making it 100°C in
temperature, this time an ice was used. The second body in this experiment also used a hot water and was half-full
instead of tap water and ¾ full. Since the ice was placed in a hot water, naturally the ice will melt inside the calorimeter
with the hot water making the hot water lose some temperature and will cool down a bit. This experiment also had a lot
of hiccups since the ice was melting really fast during the experiment before it was placed in the calorimeter and the
water that water inside the calorimeter already lost a lot of temperature prior to initiating the second part of the
experiment.

Table 1 This is a style for Table Titles. “Table 1, 2, etc.” should be in bold. Table captions should appear above tables.
The table is not necessarily similar from the lab manual.
Table 1. Specific Heat Capacity
Mass of metal 44.8g
Mass of calorimeter 46.4g
Mass of water 160.5g
Initial temperature of metal 100°C
Initial temperature of calorimeter 26°C
Initial temperature of water 26°C
Final temperature of mixture 30°C
Experimental specific heat of metal 0.2176cal/g.C °
Actual specific heat of metal 0.2174cal/g.C °
Percentage Error 0.1%
 Table 2. Latent Heat of Fusion
Mass of calorimeter 46.4g
Mass of water 160.5g
Mass of mixture 184.9g
Mass of ice 15g
Initial temperature of ice 0°
Initial temperature of calorimeter 26°C
Initial temperature of water 26°C`
Final temperature of mixture 17°C
Experimental latent heat of fusion 85cal/g
Actual latent heat of fusion 80cal/g
Percentage error 6.7%

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Figure 1. Setting up the experiment Figure 2. Post-experiment

Conclusions
The two experiments are really similar in what they try to prove with only having a few differences mainly in
the materials that were used in both experiments. The experiments also demonstrated how heat transfers from two
bodies with different temperatures when they come in contact together also proving that when a hot object comes in
contact with a cool object, the hot object’s temperature decreases while the cool object’s temperature increases.

Specific heat capacity has many real-life applications. An example of specific heat capacity being applied in real-
life is water being used in cooling down engines. Since an active engine will most likely be hotter than a passive one,
the coolness of the water will reduce the temperature of the engine. The process of latent heat of fusion experiment can
be followed when trying to reduce a temperature of something that exceeded the target temperature. This is sometimes
observed when adding ice in a drink.
References
Nelson (2012). Contact Metamorphism. Retrieved from
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Clauer (n.d). Incubating Eggs. Virginia Cooperative Extension. Retrieved from
https://www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/content/dam/pubs_ext_vt_edu/2902/2902-1090/2902-1090_pdf.pdf
Heat. Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved from https://www.britannica.com/science/heat