Find out the amount of heat in joules

Reference no: EM13221955

A coffee-cup calorimeter contains 140.0 g of water at 25.2 *C. A 122.0 g block of copper metal is heated to 100.4 *C by putting it in a beaker of boiling water. The specific heat of Cu(s) is 0.385 J/g*K . The Cu is added to the calorimeter, and after a time the contents of the cup reach a constant temperature of 30.2 *C.

Determine the amount of heat, in Joules, lost by the copper block

Reference no: EM13221955

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