Students use heat transfer to determine specific heat of metals. They practice the technique first with 2 known metals and then use the same technique to determine the identity of a 3rd metal.

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In this lesson, students explore an analogy that helps them troubleshoot a problem in an electric circuit. They will then use computer simulations to reconstruct the problem and test other solutions.