In this experiment, entitled Heat and Calorimetry,we are required to determine the specific heat of metals and the

latent heat of fusion of ice

using a common insulating material, the calorimeter.

In the first part of the experiment, the mass of the following are measured: the two metals (aluminium and copper), the inner calorimeter and the
water in the calorimeter. We immersed the metal in the boiling water,allowing it to absorb for a long time for it to attain its heat absorption limit
and to heat up the calorimeter when transferred.

Before we put the hot metal to the calorimeter, its initial temperature is being measured. We obtain atemperature of 62C for Aluminum and 63C
for Copper. The initial temperature of water is also measured and weobtain a temperature of 28C for Aluminum sample and 29.75
o

C for Copper sample. After taking some data, weimmediately put the hot metal in the water in calorimeter and measure the final temperature of
each of the metals,obtaining 29
o

C and 30
o

C respectively. It is evident that Copper dissipates more heat than that of the Aluminum.These results clearly explained on why Copper has a
small specific heat which can easily raise the temperature with just small amount of heat.In part 2 of the experiment, some parts are similar
procedures from part 1 but we are asked to get the latentheat of fusion of ice. Before we put the ice in the calorimeter, we allow enough ice to
melt to bring the temperatureof the ice water to the melting point of ice and make an assumption of 0
o

C for the initial temperature. The mass of the ice is obtained by subtracting the total mass from the water and the calorimeter. The latent heat of
fusion iscomputed according to its derived equation and the values obtained for trials 1 and 2 are 83.03 cal/g-

C
o
and 81.66cal/g-

C
o
.A source of error in part 1, the fact that Aluminum should have the more absorbed heat than copper, couldbe the room temperature which affects
the measurement of the temperature. But again, as previously discussed, thiscan be prevented by allowing the metals to absorb heat for a
long time, thus, minimizing its errors