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Thermodynamics—Review Demonstration Kit for AP® Chemistry

By: The Flinn Staff

Item #: AP7328 

Price: $64.77

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Use the Thermodynamics Review Demonstration Kit for AP® Chemistry to engage students in a hands-on review and test their understanding of this challenging yet integral topic. Students also review enthalpy, calorimetry, Hess’s law and more.

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Use this set of three thermodynamics demonstrations to both engage your students in a hands-on review and to test their understanding of this sometimes difficult yet fundamental topic.
  • Entropy and Free Energy—Exothermic crystallization of sodium acetate trihydrate sparks a lively debate on spontaneity, free energy, enthalpy, and entropy.
  • Hess’s Law—Two-part calorimetry demonstration provides data for reviewing the properties of state functions and performing H°, ΔS° and ΔG° calculations.
  • Free Energy and Redox Reactions—Solve the Nernst equation for a copper concentration cell to demonstrate the relationship between free energy and electrode potential. 

Concepts: Enthalpy, heat of formation, Hess’s law, calorimetry, entropy, free energy.
Time Required: One class period

Specifications

Materials Included in Kit: 
Agar, 6 g
Copper metal strips, pkg/3
Copper(II) sulfate, 0.01 M, 250 mL
Copper(II) sulfate, 1M, 250 mL
Hydrochloric acid solution, 3 M, 250 mL
Potassium nitrate, 15 g
Sodium acetate, trihydrate, 250 g
Sodium bicarbonate, 10 g
Sodium carbonate, 10 g
Connector cord with alligator clips, 2
Cup, polystyrene, 8 oz, 4
Drying tube, flint glass, u-shaped, 150 mm
Foil barrier bag, 4½" x 3" x 12" x 4.3 mil nylon
Parafilm, 4" x 12"


Correlation to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)

Science & Engineering Practices

Analyzing and interpreting data
Using mathematics and computational thinking
Constructing explanations and designing solutions

Disciplinary Core Ideas

MS-PS1.A: Structure and Properties of Matter
MS-PS1.B: Chemical Reactions
MS-PS3.A: Definitions of Energy
HS-PS1.A: Structure and Properties of Matter
HS-PS1.B: Chemical Reactions

Crosscutting Concepts

Energy and matter

Performance Expectations

MS-PS1-4. Develop a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion, temperature, and state of a pure substance when thermal energy is added or removed.
HS-PS1-4. Develop a model to illustrate that the release or absorption of energy from a chemical reaction system depends upon the changes in total bond energy.