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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, July 31, 2012 at 1:14am.

A 100 aluminum calorimeter contains 200g of water with an intial temperature of 15 degree celsius. if a 95g piece of copper heated to a temperatude 90 degree celsius is dropped into water, what will be the final temperature of the mixture? neglect heat loss to the surrounding.

physics - drwls, Tuesday, July 31, 2012 at 2:22am
The heat lost by the copper equals the heat gained by the water. Write that in equation form and solve for the final temperature.

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