Find the heat capacity of a block of unknown material. You will immerse the block, with...

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Find the heat capacity of a block of unknown material. You willimmerse the block, with its temperature known, into a knownquantity of water, which is at a very different temperature thanthe block. After they reach equilibrium, they will be at the samefinal temperature. From the change of temperature of both,calculate the block's heat capacity.

NOTE: You can heat up or cool the block using hot water or icewater

HOW WILL I DO THIS ? ?? ? ? explain please physics wizards ofchegg

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Yes this method is pretty common to find the specific heat ofunknown materialthe concept used here is that the metal will give up some heatwhen    See Answer
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