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I have my mocks in 2 weeks and I’m stressing because our gcses might be cancelled
Could someone tell me a model answer/ or points for the question : a student investigated the specific heat capacity of metals, describe an experiment to measure the specific heat capacity of a metal.
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- NCSLv 75 months agoFavorite Answer
Put a known mass of water (mW) of a known temperature (Tw) into a styrofoam container. Heat your metal sample of known mass (mM) to some temperature (Tm). [Putting it into boiling water might be easiest because you know it comes out at around 100ºC.] Record your equilibrium temperature (Te).
heat lost by metal = heat gained by water:
mW * 4186J/kg·ºC * (Te - Tw) = mM * c * (Tm - Te)
Solve for c.
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