Suppose that the same amount of heat is added to two 10.0-g blocks of metal, both initially at the same temperature. one block is gold metal, and one is iron metal. which block will have the greater rise in temperature after the addition of the heat?

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Jamarcus Kent

21 August, 13:58

Suppose that the same amount of heat is added to two 10.0-g blocks of metal, both initially at the same temperature. one block is gold metal, and one is iron metal. which block will have the greater rise in temperature after the addition of the heat?

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Rigoberto Duffy · Answer 1

How much a substance increase its temperature due to heat transfer depends on its specific heat.

The specific heat is the amount of heat required to increase the temperature of one mass of substance in 1 °Celsius.

The lower the specific heat the more the substance change its temperature with a given amount of heat, the greater the specific heat of the substance the lesser the change of temperature with the same amount of heat.

Then, to predict which of the two blocks will have the greater rise you need to compare the specific heats of the metals.

From tables, the specific heat of gold is 0.129 J/g°C and specific heat of iron is 0.450J/g*°C.

Then, gold will raise more its temperature than iron, after the addition of the same amount of heat.