This plateau is where a phase change occurs. Likely, this cooling curve observes the changing of a liquid into a solid (so that the temperature is quantifiable). As something cools, it’s losing energy to the surroundings; when a phase change occurs, like liquid to solid, energy isn’t lost directly from the atom, but instead the energy maintained by free motion of the atom is used. This lack of motion reduces it into a lattice (all while maintaining a constant internal energy), finalizing the phase change, after which energy is lost directly from the atom again.
Answer:
For iron
Final temperature = 54,22°C
For copper
Final Temperature = 63.67 °C
Explanation
Hello,
You are using a torch to warm up a block of iron that has an initial temperature of 32°C.
The first you have to know is that the "heat capacity" could simply define as the heat required to go from an initial temperature to a final temperature.
So you need to use the heat capacity equation as follow in the paper.
The equation has to have all terms in the same units, so:
q = 12000 J
s = 0.450 J / g °C
m = 1200 g
Ti = 32 °C
