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SAT Subject Test
If the addition of joules of heat to
kilograms of a substance raises its temperature
, the specific heat of the substance is
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No
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No
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No
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The correct answer is . The change in temperature
of a mass
of a substance is related to the amount of heat
added to it by the equation
, where
is the specific heat of the substance. Solving for the specific heat and substituting the given quantities,
.
Question Difficulty:
medium