Intro to Thermochemistry

heat and chemical change Thermochemistry - concerned with heat changes that occur during chemical reactions
Julia Dumars El Capitan High School

What is heat?
1. Hook your index fingers through each end of the rubber band. Without stretching the rubber band, place it against your upper lip or forehead. Note the temperature of the rubber band. 2. Move the rubber band away from your skin, quickly stretch and hold it, and then place it back against your skin. Note any temperature change. 3. Fully stretch the rubber band, and then allow it to return to its original shape. Place it against your skin and note any temperature change. 4. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 until you are certain of the temperature change in each step.

Questions
Did the rubber band feel cool or warm after it was stretched in Step 2? Did the rubber band feel cool or warm after it returned to its original shape in Step 3? Think about the temperature changes you observed and form some initial answers to the following questions. What is heat? In what direction does heat flow?

Heat is flowing energy

Objective: Explain the relationship between energy and heat

Students will be able to define energy and explain how heat and energy are related

Energy
capacity for doing work or supplying heat weightless, odorless, tasteless if within the chemical substancescalled chemical potential energy

Concept Development
Internet activity (5-min)In your notes, define a piecewise function in your own words. Give an example and a non example. Be prepared to share your definitions!

Energy Transformations
Chemical potential energy is stored within the bonds of gasoline molecules. In car engines, controlled explosions of the gasoline releases the energy and is used to move a piston and propel the car.

Concept Development
Heat - represented by q, is energy that transfers from one object to another, because of a temperature difference between them. only changes can be detected! flows from warmer cooler object

Concept Development Essentially all chemical reactions, and changes in physical state, involve either: release of heat,[exothermic] or absorption of heat [endothermic]

Bill Nye Heat

http://www.tubechop.com/watch/2288403

Concept Development
HOTS Explain in own words what energy is Energy is. Energy is the capacity for doing work or supplying heat. Work is done when a force is used to move an object.

Concept Development
HOTS Explain in own words what heat is Heat is. What is the relationship between heat and energy? Heat is energy that transfers between objects across a temperature gradient

Concept Development
Heat itself cannot be detected by the senses or by instruments- it is only energy! Only changes caused by heat can be detected. One of the effects of adding heat is a rise in the temperature of objects. Radiant heat from the sun is transferred to molecules in the air, which absorb the energy and increase in temperature. Heat always flows from a warmer object to a cooler object. If two objects remain in contact, heat will flow from the warmer object to the cooler object until the temperature of both objects is the same.

Skill Development
Imagine that you place one hand on a metal door and one hand on a wooden door. What is the difference in their temperatures?

Metals conduct heat away from the hand very efficiently. Unless the door had been heated by fire or sunlight, it probably felt colder than the wooden door.

Closure
In the box below, Explain what always happens when two objects of different temperatures come in contact. Give an example from your own experience and use the terms heat and energy.