To understand specific heat a little better lets consider the following questions. See how your intuition helps you as I lead you through a series of questions to explain specific heat.

Question #3:

Consider the two beakers containing water, both at the same initial temperature, say 25 degrees Celsius.

If twice as much heat is added to the beaker on the right compared to the beaker on the left, and the final temperature of the beaker on the right is lower than the beaker on the left, which beaker has more water?

Click on Answer after you have you have made you choice to see if you agree.

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