Investigating Heat Loss From a Container

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Investigating Heat Loss From a Container

Planning

We are investigating heat loss from a container and how it is

affected.

We could change:

Room temperature

Surface area

Amount of water

Use a lid

Insulate around it

Colour of tin

We could measure / observe:

Amount of time

Temperature

We will change:

Surface area

We will measure / observe:

Temperature (every minute for 5 minutes)

Our question is:

Does surface area effect the rate of heat loss?

We will keep these the same:

Colour of tin

Room temperature

Amount of water

Use a lid

Insulate around it

Preliminary investigation

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Plan

1. Collect 4 different sized beakers

2. Boil some water in the kettle

3. Pour 50ml into each beaker

4. After 1 minute check temperature

5. Repeat step 4 after another minute continue this for 5 minutes

Beaker

Start

1

2

3

4

5

Temperature change

1

59°c

57°c

56°c

55°c

52°c

50°c

-9°c

2

72°c

71°c

66°c

63°c

60°c

57°c

-15°c

3

86°c

71°c

64°c

58°c

56°c

52°c

-34°c

4

72°c

68°c

65°c

60°c

57°c

53°c

-19°c

Main Investigation

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Aim

To find out weather a beaker with a larger surface area cools quicker

than one with a smaller surface area.

Fair test

To make it a fair test we will keep the following the same:

Colour of tin - we will use clear beakers

Amount of water - we will use 100ml

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