Thursday, June 11, 2009

Specific Heat Strikes Again

Liam is fighting his naptime today, which is no fun for Mama. He cried and cried when I put him down for his morning nap, then only slept for a half hour. A few hours later, the eye rubbing and grumpies returned, so I put him down for his second nap. He's fussing, but not crying like he was this morning. Hopefully this will result in a nice and restful nap. I am hiding away in the computer room with a frosty cold Diet Coke to wait out the fussing...

Once he wakes up, we are driving over to visit his great-grandma! Liam is lucky enough to have a great-grandma and a great-nana in addition to his Grandma and Bapa, and Nana and Grandpa. That is so many people to spoil him!

Tomorrow will be Liam's first trip to the beach! It will be pretty cold, but he feet are going to be dipped in the ocean anyhow!

On the topic of my chemistry class, I was doing problems last night when I came across this one:

How many calories are required to raise the temperature of 26g of aluminium from 20 degrees C to 115 degrees C? (Note that the Specific Heat of aluminium is 0.22 cal/g x degrees C)

Ah, Specific Heat, my nemesis...

I have worked the problem over and over and I keep getting 5.4 x 10 x 10 (yeah, I don't know how to make it ten squared...). But that isn't one of the possible answers. AHRG! Luckily for me, my doctorate-from-Harvard physicist of a cousin is arriving tonight. She'll check my work. If she ever can get a flight out of Lubbock.

Waiting,
Jenny

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