What is the specific heat for the metal?

Question

It takes 9.30 J to raise the temperature of an 8.70 g piece of unknown metal from 22 degrees C to 24.8 degrees C.

Answer 1

In this case, specific heat is in units of J g^-1 K^-1

(In other cases it is in units of J mol^-1 K^-1, but you don't have enough information to find the number of moles.)

Take the number of Joules and divide it by the number of grams, and divide that number by the number of Kelvins (change in temperature). Simple.

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