9-9-o8 – Temperature Probe Response Time

This was a very interesting lab today. The lab itself was quite simple, but figuring out how to use the LabQuest was a task in itself. Although, after we figured out how to run the specific task that we needed, it was actually quite simple. The biggest problem my group had was figuring out that the directions on the lab sheet were for the TI-84 calculator and not for the LabQuest.

In this lab, we found that it took the temperature probe 49 seconds to respond to the change in temperature from the cup of ice water to the cup of hot water. When discussing the lab at the end of class, we found that ours differed from some of the others’ results by quite a few seconds. But, there were also a few who had very similar results. There were obviously different variables being used between the groups. Also, I wonder if the response time would have been different if we had gone from the hot water to the cold water.