Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Measuring Specific Heat

What is used to measure specific heat of an object? What are the steps that are to be able to measure the specific heat? If this something that you can use to help measure specific heat of an object at home, why?

9 comments:

.:*{briana alexis}*:. said...

A calorimeter is used to measure specific heat. You could use this object at home because you could see the different specific heats of an object, like stuff you are building with or using other objects. You can also use it to make sure you dont wreck anything you own. I am not sure what the steps are.

Jon said...

well you could use a calorimeter to measure it. it can be used at home and you can just use that and it will do some of there stuff.

chad said...

You use a calormeter to measure the specific heat of an object. You measure the temperature and that is how you find the specific heat. You can use it at homes but why would you want to find the specific heat of something. That and it would be really hard to do.

Mitchell Haaland said...

You should use a calorimeter to measure specific heat. You could use it to measure specific heat of foods and liquids.

todd said...

specific heat is measured by calorimeter u can use it to find the specific heat of and object around the hose i geuss

Anonymous said...

Calorimeters are used to measure specific heat. What we did is put the thing in the middle container, put water in the outer container, and then put it on the burner. After the water boiled we checked the temperature of the thing. I guess we could use it at home to find specific heats of things. But I don't see why you would want to. Just use the same steps; you can even use plastic cups.

Anonymous said...

A calorimeter is used to measure the specific heat of an object. You could use this at your house to find the specific heat of things that you are curious about and you can compare them to other objects. You could make sure that you don't break anything if the specific heat is too high or too low. I dont know what the steps are. We havent really talked much about this stuff and i dont really get it.

Fuhrman#34 said...

Specific heat is measured using a calorimeter. This can be useful if you might want to heat something up & dont know how much heat it can hold w/o being ruined.

travis s. said...

To measure the specific heat of an object you would use a calorimeter. You can use this object to tell how hot or cold it needs to be to do something to an object. You can use this at home to find out what you should set the temperature at for different things like your freezer, fridge, or just your whole house.