Class 4-Specific Heatcapacity - 2009
Class 4-Specific Heatcapacity - 2009
Class 4-Specific Heatcapacity - 2009
1. Which of these 3 metals of equal masses : copper, iron or gold requires the least
amount to heat energy to heat them up ? (Assume equal masses) [Specific Heat
capacity of copper = 0.385 J/g0C ; Fe = 0.444 J/goC ; Au = 0.129J/goC ]
2. There is 1.50 kg of water in a kettle. Calculate the quantity of heat that flows into the
water when it is heated from 18.0C to 98.7C.
3. Calculate the amount of heat released by a 25.0 g piece of copper removed from
boiling water and left in an 18 oC room. (Specific heat capacity of Cu = 0.385 J/g oC)
4. It takes 41.8 J to heat an 18.69 g chunk of gold from 10.0 oC to 27.0 oC. Calculate the
specific heat capacity of gold.
5. On a mountaineering expedition, a climber heats water from 0C to 50C. Calculate
the mass of water that could be warmed by the addition of 8.00 kJ of heat.
6. Solar energy can preheat cold water for domestic hot-water tanks.
(a) What quantity of heat is obtained from solar energy if 100 kg of water is
preheated from 10C to 45C?
(b) If natural gas costs 0.351¢/MJ, calculate the money saved if the volume of
water in part (a) is heated 1500 times per year
P 302 # 11
1. A hot piece of copper of mass 9.741 g is removed from a 224 oC environment and
dropped into 15.00 g of water at 12 oC. Calculate the final temperature of the water
2. If 100.0 g of zinc (specific heat capacity of Zn = 0.388 J/g oC)at 95.0oC is dropped into
60.0 g of water at 20.0 oC, contained in a calorimetre of mass 100.0 g (c = 0.419
J.g-.oC-),what will be the final temperature of the system?
3. A 25 g steel ball (c = 0.427 J.g-.oC-) is quickly transferred from boiling
water to a 200. g calorimetre containing 50.0 g of water at 25.0 oC.
The temperature rises to 27.0 oC. Calculate the specific heat capacity of the
calorimetre.