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Name of Investigation - 1st Law of Motion - Inertia

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Physics With Toys student name ___________________<br />

<strong>Name</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Investigation</strong> – Drinking Bird / Handboiler<br />

Big Idea – <strong>Motion</strong><br />

Vocabulary<br />

Pressure evaporation = cooling<br />

Heat energy heat engine<br />

Mechanical energy boiling points <strong>of</strong> liquids<br />

Transfer <strong>of</strong> energy temperature<br />

States <strong>of</strong> matter – liquid, solid, gas<br />

Have you ever heard <strong>of</strong> a steam engine?<br />

Old trains and boats were first powered by steam engines.<br />

Well, the Handboiler and Drinking Bird act as simple heat engines.<br />

Handboiler Hypothesis<br />

What makes the Handboiler work?<br />

Do all liquids heat up at the same rate?<br />

Water – 212 F (100 C)<br />

Ethel alcohol – 80 C<br />

Methelene chloride –<br />

1. When you put the Handboiler in your hand, what gets transferred to the liquid inside<br />

the handboiler? ___________________

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