Food Calorimetry Lab: Calculations

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How many calories are in a food sample? We can find out by burning a potato chip, causing it to release energy. This will be absorbed by water in a calorimeter, so we will then calculate how much energy the water absorbed, using an equation for heat energy, specific heat, mass, and change in temperature (delta temperature). We will also calculate the Calories per gram and Calories per serving, and then calculate percent error to find out how far off out experimental numbers were from the real values.

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I'm confused because I'm pretty sure my teacher told us that for finding the number of Calories per gram we needed to divide the amount of Calories by the CHANGE in mass of the chip after it was burned rather than the initial mass of the chip as it was done in this vid... this way makes more sense so i'm not sure if my teacher misspoke but when i do it this way my percent error was so high

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Does heating the potato chip Add energy to it or is the added heat Only converting the chemical energy in the chip to its own heat energy?

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How can you lower your percent error (what modifications can you make to the lab) so it can get closer to 0%

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What bugs me is how you can ever warm up 150g water by 65 degrees celcius by burning a single potato chip. Id have enough trouble getting it to burn at all. If youd start at a moderate temp of 35 deg, that water would be boiling! What kind of crisps are you using? Made of gun powder?

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how come you dont use 4.184 as the specific heat capacity for water?

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Jonathan Alban It's just different units. The way 12 inches equals 1 foot. 4.184 Joules is equal to 1 Calorie. So water has a specific heat capacity of 1 cal/g•ºC, or 4.184 J/g•ºC.

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+Tyler DeWitt 4.184 Joules equals 1 Calorie, not 1 calorie. You then converted something that was already in Calories to Calories, because you put that 1 Joule equals 1 calorie.

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Can't we just plug in the specific heat of water for (c) instead of writing down (1cal/g xCelsius?

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Isn't the percent error: 9.5% and not 11%? (210-190)/210?

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how many kcal of heat energy did the potato chip release when burned?

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how did you get 11% for the percent error? i got 9.5% when i calculated for percent error?

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Skip to 4:18 mark to see beginning of the explanation/equation for how to find the heat released by the snack in food Cal.

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how do I solve for energy content if only one temperature is given? ex: my test problem says "A 1.0 g sample of food reacts with oxygen in a calorimeter containing 500 g of water. The temperature rises 10°C. What is the energy content of the food?" do i subtract the given temp from 100°C or just multiply the given temp?

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how u solve for kilocalories????

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wouldn't we use the mass of the potato chip? i did this with a nut in school and we measured the mass before and after the burning..

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How would I solve this, I am so confused...Using dodecane, the calorimeter constant was found to be 28.9 kJ/°C, calculate the amount of kilocalories (Cal) per gram given off by a unknown sample if burning 0.5 g caused the temperature of the calorimeter to rise from and initial temperature of 25.0 °C to 30.5 °C. (Reminder: food labels use calories (Cal); 1 Cal = 1000 cal; 1 cal = 4.184 J)

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Hi, to figure out the Calories per gram, was 1.75g the initial mass?

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1.75 g is the mass of potato chips burnt to raise the temperature of water, right? Not the initial mass of potato chips, right?

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I'm pretty sure you are actually supposed to divide the Calories by the change in mass, not the original mass. You do this so that you can actually find how much energy was released and not extra mass

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why is my percent of error 9.5% i inputed |210 - 190|/210 x 100% is there some mistake I've done?

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Can calirimetry or a similar process be used for liquids? Say if i wanted to find out how much energy is in different sodas??

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Yes, but you'd have to evaporate them first, because water can't burn. So like for a soda, you'd evaporate it, and then the sugary goo that's left over at the bottom of the glass, you'd burn that and do calorimetry.

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