Calculate the amount of heat required to change the
temperature of 1.00 gram of water 10.0 °C.
Answer The specific heat for water which is 4.184 J g-1
°C-1, we must use this to answer this question.
Since the question asks for the amount of heat our answer must
have units of joules. So do not forget the units on heat are
joules. A very important relationship to use to solve these kinds
of problems is;
This relationship shows that if we know the specific heat for
the particular substance, the amount of that substance in grams
and the change in temperature experienced by the substance the
total heat can be calculated.
heat = 4.184 J g-1 °C-1
1.00 gram 10.0 °C
heat = 41.8 J