1.

When 80g of water of 40° C is mixed with 40g ice of 0°C, the common temperature is ..

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ong>Answer:

I got about

31.4

C

.

This is asking you to look at the HEAT transfer between a hotter substance and a colder substance, and the hotter transfers to the colder. I would EXPECT the result to be closer to

25

C

than to

40

C

because there is more colder water than hotter water.

So, you will have to use the heat FLOW equation:

q

=

±

m

c

Δ

T

=

±

m

c

|

T

f

T

i

|

Keep in mind that

q

>

0

if heat is absorbed and

q

<

0

if heat is released. So

q

<

0

for the hotter water and

q

>

0

for the colder water. That is so that:

q

hotter

+

q

colder

=

0

, i.e. we have conservation of energy for ideal closed systems.



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