LATENT HEAT OF WATER PRACTICAL

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      • set up a heater attached to a voltmeter and ammeter
      • place it in a funnel above a beaker
      • measure the beaker's mass and record
      • put some crushed ice into the beaker and find the mass of it
      • put it in the funnel with the heater
      • switch the stopwatch on and heater at the same time, wait 3 minutes
      • record the mass of the beaker plus water
    • Energy from the heater:
      • E = I x V x t
      • energy = current x PD x time
      • J = A x V x s
      • joules = amps x volts x seconds
    • if energy transfer was 100% efficient, all the energy from the heater would be transferred to the ice
    • we assume:
      • energy from heater = mass x Latent heat of fusion
      • E = mL
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