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Monday, July 8, 2019

A third simple heat problem

Here's another simple heat problem

When 10.0 calories are added to 12.6 g of a metal the temperature rises by 67.5oC. What is the specific heat of the metal?

We know that this problem involves a change in temperature, so it must use the formula
Now, what do we know?
So, we'll rearrange the formula to solve for c, substitute in our values and solve.




Now, let's try a problem with a phase change.
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