Construction and testing of an apparatus that determines the mechanical equivalent of heat using available local materials

• Main Author: Guiang, Roberto A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1985
• Subjects: Heat > Instruments; Scientific apparatus and instruments; Education; Physics
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/1143
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study is concerned with the determination of the value of J (mechanical equivalent of heat) using the local materials buho, a kind of bamboo and kawayan tinikan, another specie of the bamboo family and improvised lead shots. The main focus of the study is to determine how close to the theoretic...