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Product 12501

By: The Flinn Staff

Thermodynamics Review Demonstration Kit for AP® Chemistry
Thermodynamics Review Demonstration Kit for AP® Chemistry
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

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.