Heat Calculations Communication Assignment Name:_____________________
Part A: A review of significant digits
See p. 590 in your text and www.sciencegeek.net for sig. fig. rules.
1) 65.891 + 96.158965 2) 2.89 + 0.965 3) 62.312 – 57.23
4) 6.814 X 2.06 5) 18.51/3.2 6) (1.23x10-3) – (4.56x10-2)
Part B: Specific Heat and Heat Capacity Problems
For the following questions show all steps, report answers to the correct number of
significant digits, and show unit cancellation (factor label method is best).
1) When 1.5 x 103 J of heat energy is absorbed by a beaker of water, its
temperature rises by 3.1 ºC. What is the heat capacity of the beaker of water?
2) If 10.5 g of iron, at 25 ºC, absorbs 128 J of heat, what will be the final
temperature of the metal? (Table 5.2 p.234 may help you)
3) How much energy is required to raise the temperature of 1.20 Kg of water from
10.0o C to 18.0o C?
4) 180 kJ of energy is absorbed by a mass of water, the temperature changes by
64oC. What is the mass of water?
5) What is the specific heat of silver if the temperature of a 15.4 g. sample of is
increased by 11.2 0C when 40.5 joules of heat is added?
6) The major source of aluminum in the world is bauxite (mostly
aluminum oxide). Its thermal decomposition can be represented by the equation
below:
Al2O3(s) 2 Al(s) + 3/2 O2(g) ΔHrxn = 1676kJ
If aluminum is produced this way, how many grams of aluminum can
form when 1.000x103kJ of heat is transferred?
7) If the specific heat capacity of water in the liquid state is 1.0 cal/g˚C, calculate
the molar heat capacity of water in J/mol˚C.
8) Calculate the molar heat capacity of ethanol (liquid) given the specific heat
capacity of ethanol is 2.46 J/ g˚C.
9) Match the gases ethane and carbon dioxide with the correct heat capacity: 43.6
J/mol.K and 37.1 J/mol.K Explain your answer (drawings may be useful).
10) If samples of water and CCl4 are heated equally which will boil first? Which has
the higher heat capacity?
11) How much heat is required to evaporate 100 mL of water already at 100˚C?
Explain. Hvap for water is 40.7 kJ/mol. What would this region on a Temperature vs.
Time graph look like? Is this an endothermic or exothermic process?
Heat Calculations Communication Assignment Name:_____________________
12) How much heat is gained by 50.o g of mercury when its temperature rises by
40.0 ˚C?
c of mercury is 0.138 J/g˚C.
13) a- A 135g sample of water was warmed. Calculate the amount of heat absorbed
by the water if its temperature rose from 25.0˚C to 75.0˚C.
b- Assuming constant pressure, what is the enthalpy change, expressed in kJ, for
the water, due to the warming process in part A? Include the sign for H.
14) A 135 g sample of ice is in a freezer at -21 ˚C. It is removed from the freezer
and allowed to melt and the resulting water warms up to the room temperature,
23˚C. How much energy is absorbed by the 135g sample? The specific heat
capacity of ice is 2.0 J/g˚C, the specific heat capacity of water is 4.184 J/g˚C and the
heat of fusion of ice is 0.33 kJ/g. Hint: Begin by drawing a temperature vs. time
graph and break the problem up into three parts.
15) Heated bricks or blocks of iron were used by the wealthy long ago to warm
beds. A 1.49 kg block of iron heated to 155 oC would release how many Joules of
heat as it cooled to 22 oC ?
16) What amount of water has been cooled if removing 550 cal of energy changes
the temperature of the water from 85.0 oC to 50.0 oC ?
17) A 46.2 g sample of copper is heated to 95.4 oC and then placed in a calorimeter
which warms up from 15.0 oC to 23.6 oC. Find the heat capacity of the calorimeter.
18) How much heat is produced when 75g of steam at 135 oC is converted to ice at -
40.0 C?
19) Determine the specidic heat of a metal from the following data. A 75 g piece of
the metal at 100.0 oC was placed into an ice water bath. The heat loss from the
metal melted 255g of ice. Some unmelted ice remained in the ice water bath.
20) A piece of lead having a mass of 200.0 g and a temperature of 100.0 ˚C is
placed in a cup of water initially at 22 ˚C. After stirring the final temperature of the
water and lead is 25 ˚C. Calculate the heat energy that was lost by the lead to the
water. Calculate the amount of water in the cup. C Pb = 0.160 J/goC
