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Homework Statement
A silver block, initially at 58.5* C is submerged into 100.0 g of water at 24.8* C, in an insulated container. The final temperature of the mixture upon reaching thermal equilibrium is 26.2* C. What is the mass of the silver block?
Homework Equations
q = M x Cs x Δ T
1/M = Cs x ΔT/ q
The Attempt at a Solution
So I'm fairly sure this is right, but want to make sure I didn't get lucky. This question is pretty complex for my first one in the HW. So I decided that I'd rearrange the formula to find the heat and put the search for M. When I did this I found out I had all the variables for this except heat, so I calculated the heat of water with (100g x 4.18 x 1.4) then I plugged that into the equation 1/m = .235 SH x 32.3 *C/585.2 and when I got that answer I put it over one and came up with 77.5 grams of silver
Thoughts? Easier way to do it?
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