Ice Bath Temperature Essay

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PURPOSE

The purpose of the experiment is to determine the temperature, in degrees Celsius, at which all particle motion stops (absolute zero).
MATERIALS

Before assembling the materials, put on safety glasses FIRST, then prepare a clean, dry workspace (away from food) with all of the necessary materials.

1/8 cup water

small pan of ice water

1 empty aluminum soda can

Tongs or oven mitt

Borosilicate glass beaker (600 mL)

#1, 1-hole rubber stopper

6” test tube

Celsius thermometer

50-mL graduated cylinder

Stove top

Ice

Bucket or large pot

Gloves

Goggles

PROCEDURES

SAFETY FIRST: Since you will be heating water on a stove top, this lab requires adult supervision. …show more content…

It was then placed in the ice bath, in which immediately the can slightly collapse on itself. In part two of the experiment, the prepared ice bath temperature measured at 1°C (T2). While the heated bath temperature stabilized around 85°C (T1) after 5 minutes, where it also began to simmer. The test tube with the rubber stop in the heated bath had no water for the entire 5 minutes. When the test tube was placed inside the ice bath for 5 minutes water appeared to flow inside the test tube. The amount of water that flowed into the test tube measured at 5 mL (Vw). When determining the volume of the test tube in the 100 mL graduated cylinder with 30 mL of water, it displaced the water up to 74 mL. Thus determining the volume of the test tube as 34 mL …show more content…

In which the graph is directly proportional to the volume and the temperature. As temperature increases, the volume increases, which exhibits a linear function. Therefore a linear equation can be made by using the two given points (85 (T1), 34 (V1 ) and (1 (T2), 29 (V2). By using the slope formula, the slope turn out to be 0.0595 mL/°C. From this the y and x intercept can derived from the slope when setting either x or y as zero to solve for the other. In this case, when x is one of the points such as 1 the y intercept can be solved to be 28.9. When setting y to zero and solving for x the value comes out to be -484(°C) which is the value in which the volume is 0. When comparing it to the actual absolute zero (-273.15°C) it is -77.2% off from the actual value in which the volume is suppose to be zero. At the end, the experiment correlated with Charles ' Law. This can be explained with water entering the test tube. In which lower temperature lowers the volume of the gas in the tube (water going in reducing the volume). When referring to absolute zero, it refers to 0 thermal energy, and in context scientists were able to cool down matter that is very close to this number but did not achieve absolute zero. For gases many factors that contribute on whether gas escape the atmosphere, this include the mass of gas, temperature, gravity, and planet size. The reason Charles ' Law uses the Kelvin scale

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