Basic calorimeter activities

Basic calorimeter activities: I'm looking for an easy Calorimeter experiment for heat capacity for Year 11 Physics students. Can you suggest some, please?

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Publication Date: 27 November 2015
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Answer by ctilley2 on question Chemistry/Physics

Answer updated 18 January 2023

The Teach Engineering website has two potential activities that you can use.

Hot potato, cool foil—Uses calorimeters to determine the specific heat of three substances: aluminium, copper and another of their choice.

https://www.teachengineering.org/activities/view/cub_heat_lesson1_activity2

Counting calories—Students can discover the basics of heat transfer in this activity by constructing a constant-pressure calorimeter to determine the heat of solution of potassium chloride in water.

https://www.teachengineering.org/lessons/view/cub_heat_lesson01

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