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This document contains a multi-part physics tutorial involving heat transfer and phase changes. Students are instructed to work in groups of 3 to 5 on worksheet questions, but to hand in individual work for grading. The tutorial contains two main questions - the first involves analyzing temperature and phase change data from heating a sample of unknown liquid, and calculating associated heat transfer and thermodynamic properties. The second questions involves calculating the mass of ice remaining after ice at -25°C is combined with water at 20°C and the system reaches equilibrium. Hints are provided to help students work through parts of each problem.

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This document contains a multi-part physics tutorial involving heat transfer and phase changes. Students are instructed to work in groups of 3 to 5 on worksheet questions, but to hand in individual work for grading. The tutorial contains two main questions - the first involves analyzing temperature and phase change data from heating a sample of unknown liquid, and calculating associated heat transfer and thermodynamic properties. The second questions involves calculating the mass of ice remaining after ice at -25°C is combined with water at 20°C and the system reaches equilibrium. Hints are provided to help students work through parts of each problem.

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Physics 157 Tutorial 3
In this tutorial, you will get some practice with problems involving heat transfer
and how this leads to temperature changes and phase changes. Work in groups
of three to five (6 is not allowed!), but hand in your own worksheet, to be
graded for participation credit. You are only required to hand in what you are able
to finish in tutorial; you can still get full participation credit even if you don’t
finish. Hints and useful formulae are at the back.
Question 1: Exhausted after a challenging week of classes, you decide to relax by
heading out to a restaurant with your friends. Soon after ordering, a server comes
by and places a glass filled with a mysterious transparent liquid in front of you on
the table. “What’s going on?” you think to yourself. “I didn’t order that. Are they
going to charge me for that? Is someone trying to poison me?” You don’t want to
cause a major scene, so you decide to remain quiet about this very disturbing
development. However, when nobody is looking, you furtively transfer the liquid
to a thermos for later analysis. You place it in the freezer when you get home to
preserve the sample. Later, you measure the mass of the sample to be 200g, and
with the material in a sealed container, you add heat at a constant rate of 500W
(1W = 1 J/s), measuring the temperature as a function of time. Your data is below:
a) Label each part of the graph above, indicating the phase of the material and
whether a phase change is occurring. What are the melting and boiling points?

b) How much heat flows into the material between 10 and 14 minutes?
See the hint on the last page if you are stuck.

c) Approximately what is the specific heat in the liquid phase, in J/(kg K)?

d) Compared to this, is the specific heat for the solid phase smaller or larger?

e) What is the latent heat of vaporization for this material?

f) Compared to this, is the latent heat of fusion smaller or larger?

g) You begin to suspect the mysterious liquid may be water. Are the values you
calculated consistent with this?
Question 2: In this question, we’ll work through a problem that’s very similar to a
number of past midterm and exam questions:
Suppose you start with 200g of ice at temperature -25 degrees Celcius, and
place this into 300g of tap water, initially at 20 degrees Celcius. Eventually the
drink reaches equilibrium. What mass (if any) of ice is left?

A good first step is to draw before and after pictures to help you visualize the
situation, and label them with known and unknown quantities. For now, we will
assume that there is ice left at the end:

a) Assuming that some ice is left at the end, fill in the temperatures on the
diagram and the mass of the ice that has melted. (hint at the back)
To analyze this, a good start is to treat each part separately and understand the
net heat added to each part during the process. Q will be negative for parts that
cool. (hint at the back)
b) For the water initially present, what is Q for the process (answer in Joules):

Qwater =
How much heat is added to the ice up to the time it starts melting?

Qice, warming =
How much heat is added to the ice that melts? Hint: what is the appropriate mass
to use here?

Qice,melting =

c) What must be the sum of the quantities in part b? Why?

d) Using the idea from c, and your results from b, write down an equation and
solve it for the mass M (check your result with the possible answers on the last
page)

If it happened that our result was negative, that would tell us that there is actually
no ice left over, and the final temperature will be greater than zero. In this case,
the problem is actually simpler, since we can start with the following picture:

e) As an example of this (if you have time), work out the final temperature of
water if we start with 50g of ice at -25ºC and 450g of water at 20 ºC. Use similar
steps to what you did above, and show your work on the next page.
Hints: In this case, you have an unknown variable T (the final temperature) and
you should have three contributions to the heat for the melted ice component. You
can check your result against the possible answers on the last page.

If you still have time, try this question from a previous midterm. It’s a little more
complicated since the initial amount of ice is an unknown.
Useful formulae:
Relation between heat Q flowing in to a material and temperature change (c =
specific heat):
Q = m c ΔT
Relation between heat flowing in to a material and amount of mass changing
phase (L = latent heat for that phase change):
Q=mL

Hints: wait until you are stuck before using the hints, then try them one at a time.
Hint for question 1b):

It is not zero, and you do not need to look at the graph to figure it out.

Hint for question 2a):

Hint: Everything is in equilibrium in the final picture.

Hint for question 2b):

Hint: In each part, use one of the two equations at the top of this page.

Possible answers: 140000, 4100, 88, 64, 43, 30, 23, 8.8, 0.156, 0.042, 0.0064,
0.000032, 0.00001001

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