Question

a piece of candy is burned in a calorimeter raising up the tempature of 500g of water from 21 C to 25 C water has a specific heat of 4.18J/g C how much energy was released by the candy

Answer 1

The energy that was released by the candy is calculates using the below formula
Q=Mc delta T

Q= heat energy
m= mass (500g)
C= specific heat capacity) = 4.18 j/g/c
delta t =change in temperature = 25- 21 = 4 c

Q= 500 g x 4.18 j/g/c x 4c = 8360 j