Last week, I had a chance to see and join in the other group’s experience for the final project. There was only one group that I could collect enough information to write about. It is the group of Heba, Richard ad Nicholas. They worked on an experiment to determine the specific heat values of several different material, by utilizing the specific heat formula. In this experiment, they used 4 materials to determine heat values: aluminum, white quartz, gray granite and glass.

• First, they put each material on a digital scale to measure the mass of each.
• Second, they poured 100mL of water into a beaker, and measure the temperature initial of water using a thermometer.
• Third, they put each material on a hot plate, and keep heating until the temperature reached 72 °C by using a thermocouple
• Next, they put each material into a beaker of water.
• Then, they used the thermometer to measure the temperature final of water
• Finally, we wrote down everything and began the calculation.

After we finished calculation, we came up with these tables of date.

Overall, it seems like the aluminum getting more heat than the others. I really enjoyed in watching the other group’s experiment because they are very interesting and creative. Hopefully, we can work together in the future for those kind of project.