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Mythbusters - Cooling a Six-Pack
This is a perfect segment of Mythbusters to show for this unit. They experiment on several different methods of cooling a six-pack of beer from room temperature to just a little above freezing to see which one is the fastest and most economical. Students will apply concepts of heat, heat transfer, and even do a little work with exothermic and endothermic reactions.
Episode: Season 3, episode 16 " Cooling a Six-Pack"
Essential concepts: Heat, energy, enthalpy, chemical reactions, combustion, exothermic, endothermic, conduction, convection, radiation.
Answer key: Included in the chemistry instructor resources subscription. Click here for details.
