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Room temperature: 19 C
Temperature of water (before): 18 C
Temperature of water (after): 19 C
Oven temperature: 94 C
Mass of dry calorimeter: 80.60g=0.08kg
Mass of 100mL of water in the calorimeter: 179.18g=0.18kg
Mass of 100mL of water: 98.6g=0.0986kg
These are the results I got from the experiment. I am not sure how to determine the specific heat. There are like 10 questions for this experiment and these are the one that I couldn't figure out. I tried calculating the specific heat with the formula mcT=mcT, but just didn't get it.
1 Using the specific heat of water (4180J kg-1 K-1) calculate the amount of heat absorbed by water.
2. Using the specific heat of copper (390J kg-1 K-1) calculate the amount of heat absorbed by copper.
3. The total head absorbed (heat absorbed by copper plus heat absorbed by water) is the heat lost by the brick. Using this value, calculate the specific heat of the brick.
4. Does the brick have a high, low or moderate specific heat? Why?
#1 You can calculate the ΔT for water (1 C) and the mass of water