What heats up the fastest when exposed to the same amount of energy?A.Sand (c = 0.830 J/g•oC) B.Sanstone(c = 0.770 J/g•oC) C.Table salt (c = 0.880 J/g•oC) D.Steel car (c = 0.443 J/g•oC) E.Aluminum can (c = 0.897 J/g•oC) F.Brick (c = 0.840 J/g•oC) G.Cork (c = 2.00 J/g•oC) please explain the answer
Thermochemistry
Thermochemistry can be considered as a branch of thermodynamics that deals with the connections between warmth, work, and various types of energy, formed because of different synthetic and actual cycles. Thermochemistry describes the energy changes that occur as a result of reactions or chemical changes in a substance.
Exergonic Reaction
The term exergonic is derived from the Greek word in which ‘ergon’ means work and exergonic means ‘work outside’. Exergonic reactions releases work energy. Exergonic reactions are different from exothermic reactions, the one that releases only heat energy during the course of the reaction. So, exothermic reaction is one type of exergonic reaction. Exergonic reaction releases work energy in different forms like heat, light or sound. For example, a glow stick releases light making that an exergonic reaction and not an exothermic reaction since no heat is released. Even endothermic reactions at very high temperature are exergonic.
What heats up the fastest when exposed to the same amount of energy?A.Sand (c = 0.830 J/g•oC)
B.Sanstone(c = 0.770 J/g•oC)
C.Table salt (c = 0.880 J/g•oC)
D.Steel car (c = 0.443 J/g•oC)
E.Aluminum can (c = 0.897 J/g•oC)
F.Brick (c = 0.840 J/g•oC)
G.Cork (c = 2.00 J/g•oC)
please explain the answer
Specific heat (c) of a substance is defined as the amount of heat required by a substance to raise the temperature of 1 g of the substance by 1 0C.
The mathematical expression that relates the specific heat capacity of a substance with the heat is:
where,
is the change in temperature of the substance
Thus, if we have different substances with same mass (m) and same heat supplied (q), c will be inversely related with the change in temperature (or rise in temperature in heating up)
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