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Course: High school chemistry?>?Unit 6
Lesson 4: CalorimetryApply: calorimetry
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Problem
A lab group is instructed to find the specific heat of copper. They are provided with a coffee-cup calorimeter, distilled water, and grams of copper shot.
The calorimeter is filled with grams of water at The group heats the copper to then pours the copper into the calorimeter. The final temperature of the system peaks at
Calculate the specific heat of copper.
Report your answer to three decimal places
Report your answer to three decimal places
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