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why is cooling correction necessary on liqiud when determining specifi heat capacity.

why is cooling correction necessary on liqiud when determining specifi heat capacity.

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Sher Mohammad IIT Delhi
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9 years ago
Experiments that involve changing the temperature of a material and measuring that change are necessarily subject to energy transfers between that material or materials and the surrounding environment. These transfers will often not be accounted for and can cause inaccuracies. If the temperatures used are within 10°C or so of the surroundings, the inaccuracy is unlikely to be significant compared to other school laboratory errors. However, if you really want to make the correction, a number of methods can be used, all based upon Newton's law of cooling.

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