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Phase Change Lab Report

The document summarizes a student's lab report on phase changes of water. It notes that at -5 degrees Celsius water is solid ice, where molecules vibrate but do not move from place to place. As temperature increases during a phase change from ice to water, molecular attraction weakens but is still strong enough to keep molecules together, and they begin moving freely rather than just vibrating. It takes more energy to change water from liquid to gas than from solid to liquid due to water's higher specific heat capacity compared to ice. The student observed ice changing to a slushy mixture at 1 degree Celsius and then to completely liquid water at 7.5 degrees Celsius, with flat stretches on the temperature graph representing the respective phase changes

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Phase Change Lab Report

The document summarizes a student's lab report on phase changes of water. It notes that at -5 degrees Celsius water is solid ice, where molecules vibrate but do not move from place to place. As temperature increases during a phase change from ice to water, molecular attraction weakens but is still strong enough to keep molecules together, and they begin moving freely rather than just vibrating. It takes more energy to change water from liquid to gas than from solid to liquid due to water's higher specific heat capacity compared to ice. The student observed ice changing to a slushy mixture at 1 degree Celsius and then to completely liquid water at 7.5 degrees Celsius, with flat stretches on the temperature graph representing the respective phase changes

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Sean Munroe

2-4-15
Period 5
Phase Change Lab Write-Up
1. The phase of water at -5 degrees Celsius is ice(solid). In this phase the
molecules do not move from place to place, they vibrate.
2. Refer to the graph for 2a and 2b. While leveling out, the water is changing its
phase. In this case from Ice to both to water. As water turns from ice to water the
molecules attraction to each other becomes weaker, but they are still strong enough to
be together. The molecules move freely instead of just vibrating. When changing phase
the heat added is used as energy to change the phase of ice to water in this case.
3. In this case, the heat of fusion is the heat energy needed to change one kilogram
of water in its solid state to one kg of water in its liquid state. The heat of vaporization
would be the heat energy needed to change one kilogram of water in its liquid state to
one kg of water in its gaseous state. The heat of fusion for water is 3.35x10^5
joules/kilograms. The heat of vaporization for water is 2.26x10^6 joules/kilograms. The
main reason that it takes more energy to convert water to a gas than it takes to convert
ice to water is because of the much higher specific heat capacity of water compared to
ice.
4.
Well start with water in its solid state(ice). The molecules do not move
around, they vibrate. It is interesting that molecules expand when frozen. As the
temperature rises, water goes under a phase change to water. Water molecules are still
attracted to each other, but these molecules move around freely. As the temperature
rises more and more, the water turns into its gaseous state. In its gaseous state, there is
no attraction between the molecules and the molecules move around randomly in
random directions. In our lab, my group observed the phase change from ice to a slushy
mixture to water. The ice turned to a slushy mixture at 1 degrees celsius after only 5
minutes. Then the slushy mixture turned to completely water at 7.5 degrees celsius after
30 minutes. During the phase changes there were long flat stretches on our graph that
represent the respective phase changes. Heat energy is added to the system during the
phase change, but the temperature doesnt change because the energy is being used to
convert the ice to the slushy mixture to the water.

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