In this lesson, students will explore thermal energy transfer and the relationship between heat, mass, specific heat, and temperature change in a system.

• Students will observe and analyze thermal energy transfer between metals and water.
• Students will understand the relationship between heat, mass, specific heat, and temperature change in a system.

• energy
• thermal energy
• heat
• temperature
• thermal equilibrium
• specific heat
• metal
• mass

In this lesson, students will explore thermal energy transfer and the relationship between heat, mass, specific heat, and temperature change in a system.

 As a result, students will:

• Measure the time it takes for two objects to come to thermal equilibrium.
• Calculate the heat gained or lost by an object using mass, specific heat, and change in temperature.
• Understand how the energy gained or lost by an object relates to the change in temperature of the object.

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