Given, mass of boiling water = 100 g
Mass of cold water = 300 g
Fall in temperature = 100
−
20 = 80
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Let heat capacity of calorimeter = ms
Specific heat of water = 1 cal g
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-1∵ Heat lost by boiling water =
Δ
T = 100
× 1
× 80
and heat gained by cold water
= 300
× 10
× 10 + ms
× 10
Now, according to the principle of calorimetry,
heat lost = heat gained
100×1×80=300×1×10+ms×10
⇒
ms = 500 cal/
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Let specific heat of metal is s
bMass of block = 1 kg = 1000 g
Rise in temperature of metallic block,
Δ
t = 19
−
10 = 9
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Then, again from principle of calorimetry,
m
mixture × s
Δ
T + ms
Δ
T = m
block ×
s
b ×
Δ
t
(100+300)×1×(20−19)+500×(20−19)
= 1000
× s
b × 9
⇒
s
b = 0.1 cal/g
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