Thermal equilibrium with Cobra SMARTsense

Principle

If two bodies of different temperature are brought into contact, a temperature equalization takes place. This is also the reason why coffee or tea, for example, cool down to the ambient temperature over time.

Benefits

• Particularly understandable and didactically prepared description of the experiment (relevance to everyday life etc.) including protocol questions
• Future-oriented teaching: Integration into digital science lessons with tablets
• Increased motivation of students by using the intuitive measureAPP
• Increase of media competence

Tasks

The students observe how temperatures change when a vessel with cold water is dipped into a warm water bath.

Learning objectives

The students should notice that the greater the temperature difference, the greater the temperature changes.