What is the expected results

Question

The specific heat of copper is 0.385 J/degree Celsius and the specific heat of silver is 0.235 J/g degrees Celsius if the same amount of heat is added to one gram of each metal at 25degree Celsius what is the expected result

Answer 1

The specific heat tells us how much heat is needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of that material by 1 degree.

So, for copper it takes 0.385 J and for silver it takes 0.235 J. So, if the same amount of heat is added to 1 gram of each metal, the temperature change of the silver will be greater than that for the copper. You can see this mathematically as q = mC∆T where q = heat, m = mass of metal (1g), C = specific heat, and ∆T = change in temp.