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| Oct 30, 2018 at 22:10 | comment | added | lisa gionasa | Hi, the experiment involved finding the heat capacity of three unknown metals. The metals were placed into a water bath one at a time until thermal equilibrium was reached and then quickly placed into a calorimeter where the temperature was noted. I noticed that the change in temperature in the calorimeter was quite small. Thanks for the answers. Here's more information?? | |
| Oct 30, 2018 at 18:59 | comment | added | Žarko Tomičić | Yes, if a material has small heat capacity, then by definition this is of course true. But that is not what I meant. If iron has small heat cap compared to water then when it gives its heat to water, total temperature of this mixture wont change by much id est, you need iron to be very hot for temperature to change by some larger amount. | |
| Oct 30, 2018 at 13:04 | comment | added | probably_someone | For a given amount of heat, smaller heat capacity should lead to a larger change in temperature. | |
| Oct 29, 2018 at 13:23 | history | answered | Žarko Tomičić | CC BY-SA 4.0 |