We use cup heaters in vegetable oil and track temp change to find specific heat. It provides a nice contrast to water.
Mike Meyer
Michigan Tech Univ
mrmeyer@mtu.edu
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Blais" <bblais@bryant.edu>
To: "Forum for Physics Educators" <phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu>
Sent: Sunday, January 3, 2010 12:17:06 PM GMT -05:00 Colombia
Subject: [Phys-l] good specific heat materials
Hello,
I want to cover the topic of specific heat, and latent heat, with my
students in a lab setting. Are there any good, cheap, and available
materials that anyone has used and would recommend? Water is the
obvious standard, but perhaps anti-freeze, or some other materials
would be interesting as well.