Pre-Lab - Specific Heat of a Metal

What type of data will you be using to determine the specific heat of a metal?  Pick all that apply.

• temperature

• volume

• mass

Choose the picture that shows the correct placement of the test tube in the test tube clamp.

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When you are adding metal to the test tube, how much metal do you add?

• Add metal until the test tube is half-filled at most

• Add metal until the test tube is 2/3 full

• Add metal until the test tube is 3/4 full

• Add 100 grams

What do you do with the wet metal at the end of the experiment?

• Decant the water and transfer the wet metal directly back to its container.

• Decant the water making sure no metal goes into the sink, and transfer the metal onto the plate clearly marked with the name of the metal.

• Decant the water and dump the wet metal into the trash.

• Leave it all for your teacher to clean up because he/she secretly enjoys that.

The metal and the water end up at the same Final temperature.

• True

• False