Specific Heat of Brass

This is a student or teacher controlled, realistic 3d simulation of an experiment that allows you to measure the specific heat of brass.  The specific heat of a substance is the amount of heat it can hold per unit mass.  In this experiment we place a brass weight in boiling water.  When the weight is in the boiling water it is gaining heat energy.  After about four or five minutes it will be heated evenly to the temperature of the water.

The brass weight can then be moved to the water in the calorimeter.  It will then heat the water and the calorimeter.

Knowing the specific heat of the water and calorimeter and the maximum temperature attained by them allows you to calculate the heat gained by them.  This amount of heat gained must be the same as the amount of heat lost by the brass.  This enables the specific heat of brass to be calculated.

The user can move the weight from the heated water to the calorimter, he/she can control the shaker. The user is free to move anywhere within the laboratory in order to interact with the apparatus.