A coffee cup calorimeter with mass of 27.43  - grams is filled with water at 12.15 oC so that the total mass is 105.39 - grams.  A dry test tube is filled with 23.42 grams of an unknown metal pellets and placed into a boiling water bath for several minutes, after which it can be assumed that the metals temperature is 100 oC. The hot metal pellets are quickly  poured into the coffee cup calorimeter and the temperature of the system is seen to rise to 31.5 oC. Use the data to calculate the specific heat capacity of the unknown metal. Assume the calorimeter is perfectly insulated. Use heat capacity of water is 4.184 J/goC

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