Question

To what temperature will a 50.0 g piece of glass raise if it absorbs 5275 joules of heat and its specific heat capacity is 0.500 J/g°C? The initial temperature of the glass was 20.0 degrees C.

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Round your answer to the nearest whole number.

Answer 1

231 C final temperature, 211 C change in temperature

Step-by-step explanation:

To solve this problem you you use the q=MCΔT equation, where q is heat, m is mass, c is specific heat, and ΔT is change in temperature. Since we're given heat and solving for temperature we rearrange the equation to q/(M*C)=ΔT. At this point we simply plug in the given values to get a ΔT of 211, but this is simply the change in temperature so you add the initial to this to get the final temp.