An object with a mass of 18 g is dropped into 360 mL of water at 0^@C. If the object cools by 120 ^@C and the water warms by 2 ^@C, what is the specific heat of the material that the object is made of?
1 Answer
Jun 18, 2017
The specific heat is
Explanation:
The heat is transferred from the hot object to the cold water.
For the cold water,
For the object
Let,
Mass of the object is
Mass of the water is