Power from Temperature Data
In this problem you will be determining the effective power of an appliance that is adding heat to a system. The appliance will not be turned on immediately after the timing for this experiment begins. Some time will go by before energy is added to the system. Once the system is turned on, the energy will be added at a constant rate. You know the mass of the material being heated as well as that material's specific heat

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Power from Temperature Data
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Use the information about your substance to calculate the amount of energy that has been added to your system for each of the rows of the table below. Graph this added energy on the y-axis vs the time you have been tracking your system and the x-axis

Remember that the energy does not start entering the system at time equals 0 seconds. Using the graph determine the power of the appliance and the time it was turned on

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Power (J/s):
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