Teaching About Energy: Using Less Fuel to Heat and Cool Your Home

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This student activity is designed to study energy flow and conservation. The rate at which the temperature of water increases in different containers is used to explore the insulating properties of the containers. Students are provided an introduction to heat flow and insulating properties of materials. Included are notes for instructors wishing to use this material.

This activity is part of a PTRA manual on Energy.

Book Title: Teaching about Energy

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Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - Work and Energy	- High School - Middle School	- Instructional Material = Activity = Laboratory

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Access Rights:: Limited free access; The described excerpt is available for free download. There is a cost for the full PTRA manual.
Restriction:: © 2003 AAPT
Keywords:: efficiency, energy, energy conservation, energy efficiency
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created January 17, 2006 by Bruce Mason
Record Updated:: May 21, 2008 by Lyle Barbato
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