A student drops two metallic objects into a 120 g steel container holding 150 g of water at 25°C. One object is a240 g cube of copper that is initiall

Kyran Hudson

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2020-12-21

A student drops two metallic objects into a 120 g steel container holding 150 g of water at 25°C. One object is a240 g cube of copper that is initially at 85°C, and the other is a chunk of aluminum that is initially at 5.0°C. To the surprise of the student, the water reaches a final temperature of 25°C, exactly where it started. What is the mass of the aluminum chunk?

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Specific heat of copper is = 0.093 cal / g C
Specific heat of aluminium = 0.215 cal/g C
Now heat lost by the hot copper = heat gained by the cold aluminum because remaining all are at the same temperature.
240×0.093×(8525)=m×0.215×(255)
Solve the above equation then you will get the value of mass.

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