If water had a lower specific heat would your chances of enjoying a long, hot bath be greater or less? Why?

Answer 1

assuming all the factors are the same, only the specific heat is lowered, then a shorter hot bath will ensue from a purely mathematical point of view....
i took into account the mass and temeprature changes that if they are increase the value of the number would decrease and vice versa.....

Answer 2

They would be exactly the same. Why? - I have a shower. The chances of scalding myself in the shower would be lower.

If I wanted a long hot bath I supose I could book in at a hotel : if the specific heat of water was lower then they would presumably know that and would install larger hot water tanks so, although the other guests used more water in their baths, I could still relax for as long as I wanted , topping up with hot water more frequently than I would need to do at present. As far as I can see ; despite the fact that the bath water will cool quicker, the chances for my long hot bath will be as good as ever. As an alternative I can install a circulating pump and auxilliary electric heater in my domestic bath (after removing the coal) and just adjust the temperature to comfortably hot then lie there as long as I like - provided the latent heat of vapourisation ( or whatever it is called nowadays) hadn't changed too I should use the same amount of electricity with this new 'thin' water as I would with the regular stuff.

Answer 3

This is very unrealistic problem. Do you also consider the human body containing blood have the lower specific heat just like water? A lot of factors are affected in your premise.
Water has the highest specific heat of 1.0 cal/gC.

Answer 4

Fuel,heat and oxygen are the three that produce fire.
Extinguishing of fire is effectively removing at least any one of them.
Water 1)lowers the heat as also 2)the steam let out effectively cuts off oxygen(air)