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Lesson 7 – Heat Exchange

Heat exchange is nothing more than the conservation of energy applied to
thermodynamic concepts. According to the law of conservation of energy, the
total amount of heat energy must be constant as long as none is lost to its
surroundings.

In general we will think of heat energy moving from a hot object to a cold
object and we can rewrite the law as:

EH gained = EH lost

ΔEH 1 = −ΔEH 2
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The negative sign in the second equation represents the direction in which
heat is flowing. This is a convention. Due to the fact that we think of heat
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energy flowing from a hot object to a cold object, we place the negative sign
here to distinguish the two energies – the energy lost has the same
magnitude as the energy gained, but in a different direction.
Example 1
A 0.500 kg pot of hot water for tea has cooled to 40.0 °C. How much freshly boiled water
(at 100 °C) must be added to raise the temperature of the tea water to 65 °C?
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Example 2
A hard-boiled egg with a heat capacity of 2.4 ×103 J/kg°C and a mass of 50.0 g is cooled
from 100°C by 1.0 L of water at 5°C. What will be the final temperature of the water and
egg after they have been allowed to sit for a few moments?