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Calibration Measuring Lab Report.
Calibration Measuring Lab Report.
Topic # 11. Calibration and the use of pressure and temperature measuring
instruments
II. Theory.
The formula for converting from degrees Celsius to degrees Fahrenheit is as follows:
oF = (1.8 x oC) + 32
III. Objective.
c. Thermometer
d. Optical Pyrometer
e. Radiation Pyrometer
f. Beakers
g. Bunsen Burner
h. Steam Bath
V. Procedures.
1. Open the hand wheel fully and the valve of the oil reservoir.
2. Fill up the oil reservoir up to its desired level and open the drain valve.
3. To eliminate or remove the air trapped inside the oil cylinder, tightened the
hand wheel slowly so that the oil will spill out through the drain cock.
6. Close the hand wheel slowly until the platform rises to approximately one
cm. Record the pressure reading.
7. Add weights one after the other with an increment stated on the data sheet
and make 12 trials repeating procedure no. 6.
8. After all weights have been placed, get the difference between the standard
equivalent pressure and the gage pressure readings.
2. Place the mercury thermometer into the cylinder and lower the thermometer
until the bulb is near the bottom.
3. Leaving the ice to melt, read the temperature on the thermometer. There
will come a point when the temperature is stable. Record this temperature as the melting
point of the ice.
2. Place the thermometer in the steam bath through the desired location.
3. Make a flame with the Bunsen burner place at the bottom of the apparatus.
4. There will come a point when the water will begin to boil. Read the
thermometer and record the result as the boiling point reading of the thermometer.
VI. Findings
Liquids unlike solids, do not have a definite shape. However, liquids do have a
definite measurable weight and volume.
The pressure exerted by liquids can be divided into two groups: hydraulic pressures
and static pressures.
Hydraulic pressures are the pressures exerted by liquids in motion, such as the
pressures created by a mechanical pump.
Gases differ from solids and liquids in that they have neither a definite shape nor a
definite volume.
Gases do have weight, however due to the force of gravity, so gases do exert
pressure.
This formula was derived by using the freezing and boiling points of water as
reference points. Since there are 180 degrees between the freezing and boiling
points of water on the Fahrenheit scale and 100 degrees between two points on the
Celsius scale, the ratio of degrees Fahrenheit to degrees Celsius is 180:100.
In other words, there are 1.8 times as many degrees between freezing and boiling on
the Fahrenheit scale as there are on the Celsius scale (180/100 = 1.8).
VII. Observations.
Consequently, the scales that have been established as a basis for pressure
measurement reference atmospheric pressure, although in different ways.
VIII. Conclusion.
Things feel hot if their temperature is higher than skin temperature, or cold if their
temperature is lower than skin temperature.
However, the sense of touch is not enough to be an effective and reliable method of
temperature measurement; instruments marked with definite scales are needed.