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Question: Substance A has a specific heat of 0.650 J/g(k): and Substance B has a specific heat of 0.325 J/g(k). If 100 J of energy is applied to a 10g sample of each substance, which substance will have a higher temperature? Why?

Answer 1

Unable to determine, because we don't know what temperature they had before you added 100 J of energy. If we are allowed to assume that they had the same temperature to start out with, however, substance B will end up hotter, because it takes less heat to raise it 1°, and as such the same 100 J will increase its temperature more.