Description
Grade 11–College. The Carolina® Heat System Physics Kit comes with 54 components, including all the thermometers, beakers, tubes, and vessels needed to investigate core concepts in introductory thermodynamics. Kit has enough material for 1 group of 2 to 4 students to perform all the activities. Kit components come in a metal ballistics case with high-density foam inserts for easy storage and long life. A hot plate and general lab equipment are needed but not supplied.
The included experiment guide covers 15 activities:
- Psychrometry
- The Hot Tea Problem: Newton’s Law of Cooling
- Specific Heat of Several Metals
- Specific Heat of Water
- Expansion of Water
- Heat of Fusion
- Linear Expansion of a Solid
- Phase Transitions and Cooling Curves
- Heat Conduction in a Rod
- Convective Heat Transfer
- Pulse Glass
- Expansion of Gas
- Expansion of Liquid
- The Thermocouple
- The Thermostat