Posted by Sarah on Thursday, November 1, 2007 at 11:10pm.
They don't tell you the mass of the coffee, but you know the mass of the spoon. The heat lost by the coffee equals the heat absorbed by the spoon. Call it Q
Q = (spoon mass) x (silver specfic heat) x (temperature rise of spoon)
The specific heat of silver is 0.234 Joules/(grams degC)
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