2. a 500.0 g metal block absorbs 3.25 × 103 j of heat to raise its temperature by 50.0 k. what is the substance? show your work.

The amount of heat Q absorbed by a substance is related to its increase of temperature  by the following relationship:

where m is the mass of the substance and  is its specific heat.

Using ,  and , we can find the specific heat of the substance by re-arranging the formula:


and looking at the table of specific heat values for various substance, we find that this value corresponds to lead.

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