Specific Heats Lab formulas and heats

Specific heats lab

In the Specific Heats lab my lab partner and I's goal was to find the initial temperate of the metal that was given to us for this lab. We will be finding the temperature before the testing and after the testing. We will be finding the mass of the substance, mass of the empty beaker and mass of the beaker with H2O. What we will do is put the beaker with the metal on a hot plate and heat it up until boiling. After the beaker with the water and metal is boiling I put the metal in a calorie meter with room temperature water to see if the water will change temperatures from the metal before and after testing.

The metals that we had to choose from were, Stainless steel, Lead(Pb), Aluminum (Al), Brass, Copper (Cu), Zinc (Zn) and Water. The substance that we got was lead, the reason why is that lead is one of the only metals that is made into fishing weights. And it is pretty flexible as well. What we had to learn or know to do this lab is the Variables and the equations for this lab. We had to find out what the temperature was and how to find the temperature with a scientific thermometer. And how to record the mass and to get the metal to heat up to give a temperature before being heated and after being heated.

Metals:
Pb: Lead
boiling point: 3164F (1740C)
melting point: 621.4F (621.4C)

Al: Aluminium
boiling point:4220.6F (2327C)
melting point:1220F (660C)

Brass:
boiling point: N/A
melting point: >1600F (>871C)

Stainless Steel:
boiling point: N/A
melting point: 2786F (1530C)

 Cu: Copper
boiling point: 4703F (2595C)
melting point: 1481.4F (1083C)

Zn: Zinc
boiling point: 1664.6F (907C)
melting point: 786.2F (419C)

H2O: Water
boiling point: 212F (100C)
melting point: N/A