Boiling Water

Today I made my first thermocouple!  I took some thermocouple wire and used a tiny little welder to zap them together, it took a couple of tries though, as I had the welder on it's "Turbo" setting and would just burn the wire.

DAQ and thermocouple. Currently only reading jibberish from thermocouple.

I plan on going to GoodWill tomorrow and getting a cheap pot.  I'm going to punch a hole through the lid, insert my thermocouple (maybe make it float on a cork), and look how the temperature profile of the heater water as a function of the amount of water in the pot.  I expect it to be fairly linear in the begining (following q=mcT), but after vapor pressure is built up I expect it to become slightly non-linear.

To the beach for some go-go juice!