Measuring Specific Heat of Paraffin Using Cooling Method

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Start date Aug 15, 2008
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magicmangp

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Aug 15, 2008

I am going my coursework. My aim is to determine the specific heat of paraffin using the cooling method. I was wondering what would be the systematics errors?

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tyrantboy

Aug 19, 2008

where is your attempt?

Measuring Specific Heat of Paraffin Using Cooling Method

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