What Is Burning Fuel and How Does It Give Up Energy?

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What is burning and how does it produce energy?

15 points

INDIVIDUAL:
1. Use the space below to draw or explain how heating a syringe helped us understand how
an engine works when fuel is burned. Think about the transfer of energy. 2 points tothe
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2. Use the space below to record your ideas for how we can investigate what the “smoke”
that we saw leaving the engine might be made of. Think of what started the reaction and what
the exhaust could be made of. 2 points
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3 .Open the slides PDF and look at the image of the gas pumps.
- Thinking about those labels on the pumps, is there any information there that
could help us better understand gasoline or raises questions? 1 point a nor
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University of Colorado Boulder, with support from the Hewlett Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the National Science Foundation,
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International License.
4. Open the slides PDF and look at the different fuel types. Record your observations and
questions as we investigate molecules that make up different types of fuel. Look for
similarities between the types of fuels. What are the main differences? Look at the sizes of the
molecules. How much energy does each type of fuel produce? 5 points
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5. Using the same pdf, look at the last page. When Ethanol evaporates, are there any new
molecules forming? If so, what are they? Explain what you think is happening when Ethanol
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6. What is happening when Ethanol is combusted? Are any new molecules formed? If so,
what are they? What is happening on the molecular level that makes combustion and
evaporation different? 3 points

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