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Hot and Cold Cups Investigation II

Cooling warm water

  1. Place 100 ml of warm water in a cup of water. Let the probe record the temperature for 30 minutes. Make sure to set the scale to 0 to 100 degrees Celsius and the run time for 30 minutes. Refer to Technical Hints to see how to use the Data Logger software.

  2. Design a new spreadsheet that records the types of cups found throughout all of the groups. Look at the sample set of cups at the front of the room to determine the headings. Refer to Technical Hints to create a spreadsheet.

  3. When the temperature recording is finished, share data between groups that used another kind of cup to your spreadsheet. Ask your teacher how to make the transfer. Enter the data into your spreadsheet by directly transferring data from the DataLogger program to your spreadsheet. Refer to Technical Hints to transfer data to the spreadsheet.

  4. Create a x-y line graph for all of the data for each kind of cup. Refer to Technical Hints to create a x-y line graph from your spreadsheet. Your graph will have a line for each kind of cup.

  5. Answer questions 3-5 in the "Analysis".

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