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Materials and kitchen design

Use this worksheet to move from naming materials to explaining why those materials were chosen for specific kitchen jobs.

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Coffee machine materials illustration

Part A: Compare

Choose two kitchen objects made from different materials. For each one, identify one property that makes the material a good choice.

Part B: Explain sensation

Why can a metal spoon and a wooden spoon feel different even when both have been sitting in the same room?

Part C: Redesign

If you were redesigning a saucepan handle, which material family would you choose and why?

Part D: With numbers

4. A copper pan handle is cm long and warms by °C. With α = 17×10−6 per °C, how much longer does it get, in millimetres?

5. Two pan bases are identical except for material: steel (k = 16 W/m·K) and copper (k = 401 W/m·K). How many times faster does heat cross the copper base?

Return Home, pair this worksheet with Teach, the Materials lesson, and the conductivity demo in Try.