When someone starts a diet, the first thing you may hear them say is that they are going to watch how many calories they are eating and that they are going to increase their excercise. What are they limiting and trying to burn? A calorie is a unit of energy. The study of calorimetry is not just a study on how much energy food contains. Calorimetry is a laboratory technique of observing energy changes when two substances are combined. In this topic, you will investigate calorimetry and how calculations in calorimetry are solved.

Essential Questions

• How is a calorimeter used?
• How is the calorimetric equation used to determine different variables?