Name: Manushi Shah

Lab Section: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10 am

Measuring the heat capacity of an engine coolant

(7/06/2021)
Objective: - To find the role of heat capacity in the relation between heat with temperature.

- Differentiate between specific heat capacity and heat capacity

Procedure:
Method 1:

- Heat a measured amount of compound Y (coolant) in an insulated container with a Bunsen

burner at a low heating power.

- Record the temperature as a function of time.

- Make a plot of temperature along y-axis and heat along x-axis.

Heating time (s) Heat (Joules) Tempreature (Celsius)
0 0 25
10 100 26.06
20 200 26.8
30 300 27.7
40 400 28.94
50 500 29.85
60 600 30.82

Heat Capacity= 1/slope= 1/ 0.0097 = 103.092 J/C

Specific Heat Capacity (c) = C/mass = 103.092/277.22g = 0.371 J/g˚C

Method 2:

- mix a known amount of Compound Y at one temperature with a known amount

of deionized (DI) water at another temperature.
- From the final temperature of the mixture, one can calculate the heat capacity of
Compound Y.

Volume (mL) added to Mass (g) added to the Initial T (Celsius)

Liquid the mixture mixture before mixing
DI water 75 ml 75 g 90 (Celsius)
Compound Y 50 mL 139 g 5 (Celsius)
Final Tempreature of Mixture( DI water + Compound Y) is 37.1 Celsius
Density of water: 1 g/mL

75 mL x 1g/1mL= 75 g = 75000 kg

Density of compound y: 2.78g/mL

50 mL x 2.78g/1 mL= 139g = 139000 kg

q(water) = -q(compound)

mCΔT (water) = - mCΔT (compound)

(75000 kg) (4.184 J/kg K) (37.1˚C - 90˚C) = (139000 kg) (C) (37.1 ˚C – 5 ˚C)

C= 3.72 J/kg

Specific heat capacity(c) = C/mass= 3.72/118.5g= 0.031 J/g ˚C

Summary:
Average of method 1 and Method 2 is 2.0465

And Standard deviation of 0.835

Conclusion:
The specific heat capacity in method 1 is 0.371 J/g ˚C whereas for Method 2 it is 0.031 J/g ˚C

No both of the methods do not have consistent results.

Post Lab Questions:

1) Heating 12.0 g of a compound with 350. joules of heat cause the temperature to increase
from 25 0 C to 42 0 C. Determine the specific heat capacity of the compound.

heat capacity= heat/ΔT= 350/ (42-25) ˚C

= 20.58 J/˚ C

Specific heat capacity= C/mass

= 20.58/12

= 1.715 J/g ˚C

2) In a virtual garage, 250. g of metal shavings at 175 0 C is dropped in a bucket containing 390.
mL of water at 23.0 0 C. The final temperature of water and metal is 39.9 0 C. What is the
specific heat capacity of the metal? Water has a specific heat capacity of 4.18 J/g0 C and
density of 1.00 g/mL. Heat capacity of the bucket is negligible and is adiabatic.

Specific heat capacity= C/mass

= 27550.38/3377.g

=8.157 J/g ˚C

3) In a virtual kitchen, a cup of coffee at 27 0 C containing 8 ounces of coffee is reheated in a

microwave oven providing 200 W of microwave heating power for 1.5 minutes. What is the
final temperature of the coffee? Assume the coffee density is 1.0 g/mL and its specific heat
capacity is 4.18 J/0 C. The heat capacity of the cup in this kitchen is 0.50 J/0 C. 1 ounce =
29.57 mL

Convert ounces to mL
8 x 29.57 = 236.56 mL
Heat from microwave = power x time
200 W x (1.5 x 60) = 1800 J
Mass of coffee: 1.0 x 236.56 mL = 236.56g
Heat Capacity of coffee
18000 = 236.56 x 4.18 [T(f) -27] + 0.5 [T(f) -27]
18000= 989.32 [T(f) -27]
T(f) -27 =18000/989.32
T(f) – 27 +27= 18.19+ 27

T(f) = 45.194 ˚C