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Calorimetry Practice Problems WS2

1. A chocolate chip cookie contains 12 Calories. Convert this energy to calories.

2. A glass of orange juice contains 81 Calories. Convert this energy to kilojoules.

3. An endothermic process absorbs 238 kJ. How many calories of heat are absorbed?

4. An exothermic reaction releases 625 000 calories. Convert this energy to kilojoules.

5. If the temperature of a 500.0 g sample of liquid water is raised 2.00°C, how much
heat is absorbed by the water? The specific heat of liquid water is 4.184 J/g°C.

6. A silver bar with a mass of 250.0 g is heated from 22.0°C to 68.5°C. How much heat
does the silver bar absorb? The specific heat of silver is 0.235 J/g°C.

7. How much heat does a 23.0 g ice cube absorb as its temperature increases from –
17.4°C to 0.0 °C?

8. A sample of gold absorbs 16.1 J of heat as its temperature is increased by 25°C.

What is the mass of the gold sample? The specific heat of gold is 0.129 J/g°C.

9. What mass of liquid water at room temperature (25°C) can be raised to its boiling
point with the addition of 24 kJ of energy?

10. A piece of copper alloy with a mass of 85.0 g is heated from 30.°C to 45°C. In the
process, it absorbs 523 J of energy as heat. What is the specific heat of this copper
alloy?

11. A 4.0 g sample of glass was heated from 1°C to 41°C and was found to have
absorbed 32 J of energy as heat. What is the specific heat of this type of glass?
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12. Energy in the amount of 420 J is added to a 35 g sample of water at a temperature of

10.°C. What will be the final temperature of the water?
13. A 15.6 g sample of ethanol absorbs 868 J as it is heated. If the initial temperature of
the ethanol was 21.5°C, what is the final temperature of the ethanol. The specific
heat of ethanol is 2.44 J/g°C.

14. A 77.5 g sample of an unknown solid is heated to 62.5°C and placed into a
calorimeter containing 93 g of water at 23.3°C. If the final temperature of the solid
sample and the water is 26.2°C, what is the specific heat of the solid?

15. A 50.6 g sample of iron metal is heated and put into 104 g of water at 19.7°C in a
calorimeter. If the final temperature of the iron sample and the water is 24.3°C, what
was the temperature of the iron sample when it was placed in the water?

16. Phileas Fogg, the character who went around the world in 80 days, was very fussy
about his bathwater temperature. It had to be exactly 38.0o C. You are his butler, and
one morning while checking his bath temperature, you notice that it’s 42.0 oC. You
plan to cool the 100.0 kg of water to the desired temperature by adding an
aluminum-duckie originally at freezer temperature (-24.0oC). Of what mass should the
Al-duckie be? [Specific heat of Al = 0.900 J/(goC); density of water =1 .00 g/ml].
Assume that no heat is lost to the air.

17. In real calorimeters, most of the heat released by the bomb is absorbed by water, but
a certain amount is also absorbed by the metal and insulation surrounding the water
tank. A certain calorimeter absorbs 24 J/oC. If 50.0 g of 52.7oC water is mixed with the
calorimeter’s original 50.0 g of 22.3oC water, what will be the final temperature of the
mixture?