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How To Determine The Specific Heat Of Aluminum And Copper

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In this experiment, the goal is to determine the specific heat of two metals- aluminum and copper. Specific heat is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of a given substance by 1°C. Once determined, the specific heat can be used to identify the metal. This experiment is meant to put coffee cup calorimetry to use to examine the heat flow of different metals based on certain elements of their surroundings. Calorimetry is the study of heat changes in chemistry. Coffee cup calorimetry is a type of calorimetry that is often put to use to model small-scale examples of heat flow. This calorimetry is used to examine the heat flow to determine the specific heat of a metal. Calculations using the equation q=mcΔT exist to use the change
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