Why do hot packs and cold packs eventually return to room temperature?

Temperature will revert to room temperature after the substance reacts fully. Heat energy flows between the chemical bonds of the added substance and water to the surroundings (elsewhere in the water, the beaker, a student's hand that touches the beaker).

Explanation:

for step 7 table c on the lab "newtons law of action"   the average time it took the car to travel .25 meters   was 1.92 seconds.

the average time it took the car to travel 0.50 meters was 2.61 seconds

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