An object with a mass of #120 g# is dropped into #640 mL# of water at #0^@C#. If the object cools by #48 ^@C# and the water warms by #3 ^@C#, what is the specific heat of the material that the object is made of?
1 Answer
Jan 29, 2018
0.33 cal/gºC
Explanation:
At equilibrium, the final temperature
where
Since
Then:
where I have used the density of water (1 g/ml) to estimate its mass, and
Finding the value for