Lab 11B: Calories of food

This lab was made to see if we could find Calories (not calories, as calories with a lower-case c aren't what we're looking for, but rather Calories, which are made up of 1000 calories) of food by burning the food, and then using that data to find the Calories per gram of food.

Questions:

1. We measured the temperature change in the water.

2. Since the energy released by the food was then mostly gained by the water, we could say that by measuring the energy gained by the water, we measured the energy released by the food.

3. The can that we had had some small holes in it, so if some energy released by the food wasn't absorbed by the water, it most likely escaped the can.

4. I was surprised that the cheese curl burned so much, especially given the fact that I was told that the cheese curl might not give especially good results.