Rin F.

asked • 04/28/21

Question about phase change calorimetry! Help

Hello, so we've recently conducted a calorimetry experiment wherein we had to mimic an isolated system by melting ice cubes in hot water.


The questions are:


  1. Calculate the heat exchanged in the system
  2. And from that equation, calculate the initial temperature of the ice.

and the values I used are:


mass of water = 99.24 g

mass of ice = 25.26 g

initial temperature of water = 61.2

final temperature of resulting solution = 31.6 C


I don't know how to get the heat exchanged in the system since the initial temperature of the ice was unknown but when I solved for the initial temperature of the ice, I got -37 C ): Is this correct? But how should I compute for the heat exchanged in the system?


The formula I used to get the second answer is -Qwater = Qice wherein q ice is the sum of the q needed to raise the temperature of ice + latent heat of fusion + the q of the water melted from the ice.

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Rin F.

Thank you so much! I was wondering if in the heat gained by ice equation wherein ...+ mass x CH2O x Tf - Ti, shouldn't be the specific heat (C) of ice be 2.03? also won't be the heat exchanged by the system affected by the phase change
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04/28/21

J.R. S.

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Good catch. I neglected to include raising temp of ice from initial temp to zero. That would be the mass x C of ice x delta T. Need to add that to the equation. Sorry. Busy now so can’t do the math currently.
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04/28/21

Rin F.

Thank you, where should I add that to the equation?
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04/28/21

J.R. S.

tutor
Add it (25.26)(2.03)(0 - Ti) to the heat gained by ice equation
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04/28/21

Rin F.

Although, we were instructed to not assume 0 as the temperature for ice so I thought we were to use 31.6 for that. Also wouldn't the heat lost be negative like -12,291? Thank you.
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04/28/21

J.R. S.

tutor
0 is the freezing point of ice. So before you can melt it, you have to get it to zero degrees. There is no assumption about that to my way of thinking. The ice starts at Ti and goes to zero, then it melts, then it goes to 31.6º. Yes, the 12,291 would be negative because water is losing heat, except that if you make all ∆T values positive, then that negates (no pun) the negative sign for the 12,291.
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04/28/21

Rin F.

Why would you make all T values positive when its Tf-Ti?
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04/28/21

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