This time we had a relatively very fast experiment. We used the heat engine apparatus, a 100-g weight, hot and cold water bath, and gas pressure and thermo sensor. We connected all of these like the one below:
Apparently, upon making our technical report on this experiment, I found it hard to do. At first I was amused by the going up and down of the heat engine's piston. However, when I read the manual, there were many steps we had to do to interpret the data we had. The experiment itself was easy and fast. We have to first put the metal cylinder into the cold reservoir, note measurements, add weight, note measurements, put into hot reservoir, note measurements, remove weight, note measurements, put into cold reservoir, note measurements, and then the cycle is done!
Though we did it about twice or thrice because we have to read the temperature, pressure and volume simultaneously at each part of the cycle. Once the measurement suddenly deviates, we have to do it all over again. It was fun though!
Well, going back to writing the paper, it was sort of a long process -- maybe because of the guide questions we had to answer that made it hard.
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