Cooling Curve Analysis

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Cooling Curve Analysis
Data from website analysis posted in Excel
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Lets do better. Plot the data as temperature vs.
time, not µvolts vs. number
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Look at the beginning to clean that up  
transients we may not want
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The end of the run is not as clearly wrong,
as it was for the tank draining
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I took out the first few points and ended at
about 100 secs
A quadratic fit as in tank draining turns out to
be a bad guess
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Theory suggests exponential behavior
or
If we can guess the final temperature, we
can find a trendline for the logarithmic data
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Compare the temperatures model vs. data
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Compare the difference (error)
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The experimental value of k 0.0458 sec-1
I will address the experimental error in this
another day