Week #6 Assignment #2 & 3

Proof of Efficacy Document for your ‘You Have the Power’ Energy Transfer Device
This week you will spend time working on your Energy Transfer Project. I would suggest investing more time
this week on it so you can spend slightly less time on it next week and more time preparing for your AP
Exams (if you are taking them). There are 6 critical items below (not including the actual creation of the
device) some of these items will take longer to complete then others. Think about creating a Gantt chart to
plan your project work time.

Proof of Efficacy Document for your ‘You Have the Power’ Energy Transfer Device
The document can have paragraphs, bullet points, diagrams, pictures, tables, etc. It should include:
1. Name and function of your energy transfer device : Frying Pan
2. Photos of your energy device
3. Written description of your design including steps of energy transfers and types of energy manifested(think back
to your ‘Energy forms & Changes PhET simulation’ from week 4)
4. Modifications you made based on experiments/data collected and WHY you made each modification (science
reasoning)
5. ​Measurements of energy output (you will need to get creative here if you don’t have scientific instruments for
accuracy. (Ex. you don’t have a voltmeter, but you do have an LED, how much energy is required to light the LED)
6. ​Molecular Blueprints

Other Important Information:

Thermochemistry-You have the Power​ ​Project Launch​You Have the Power! Project Proposal​-​(replace
link with your individual project proposal) ​ and video inspiration ​World's Largest Lemon Battery-
Lemon powered Supercar
1.The Frying Pan of (atomic bond) DEATH!

3.My project is to decompose solid brown sugar (sucrose ​C​12​H​22​O​11​) into its base parts via heat. These
parts include glucose (C₆H₁₂O₆) and fructose (​C6​​ H​12​O​6​). This decomposition occurs once sugar has been
heated past 186C. At this temperature, rather than melt, it breaks into two simple sugars that can. This heat
will be generated by the combustion of natural gas.

The device I used was a regular frying pan, purchasable from any store. I then threw half a stick of
butter in there and a cup of brown sugar. The butter melted and helped the brown sugar to dissolve and begin
to heat. The peaches were diced into half inch sections, covered in half a lemon of juice, a pinch of cinnamon,
and a 1/4th teaspoon of salt. This is not the subject of the study, but glazed peaches were a bi product.
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 3 still. Under the skillet, natural gas has a huge amount of potential energy, and combusts at 628C and
releases thermal energy. As it burns that heat is transferred to the skillet, and then to the butter, and finally, the
brown sugar begins to vibrate. When heated above 160C, rather than melt, the sugar can no longer keep its
bonds, and breaks into its components, fructose and glucose. While the bonds are broken, I placed a peach
between them! As the sugars then cooled, they recombined into polymers, resulting in a sticky mess.

5. I have no way to measure the heat being outputted as I used a gas stove. I have no means to
measure the temperature of the flame, or the pan. What I do know is that natural gas combustion is at 628C,
and caramelization starts at 160C. Since the specific heat capacity of brown sugar is 3.84kJ/kgK, I had to
impart around 30.72 kJ into the sugar for it to melt. This however assumes this happened in a vacuum where
none of the energy was lost. As the energy in the new mix! I have no idea. I ate a lot of it though

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Some photos of the process!