mod 2 practice probs

Module 2 Practice Problems

1. Convert 15.0 oC into Fahrenheit.
59.0  oF

2. The temperature of deep space is 3.5 K. What is that in Celsius? In Fahrenheit?
-269.5 oC -453.1 oF

3. Some parts of the western United States regularly reach temperatures of 115 oF in the summer.
What is that in oC?
46 oC
4. The average person uses 2,500.0 Cal of energy per day. How many Joules is that? Remember that
a food calorie (Cal) is 1,000 chemistry calories (cal).
1.046 x 107

5. How many Joules does it take to heat up 15.1 kg of glass from 15 oC to 45 oC? (refer to Table 2.1)
379,251.6 J

6. 124.1 g of an unknown substance absorbs 50.0 kJ of heat and increases its temperature by 36.3 oC.
What is its specific heat? (Remember that “k” is the abbreviation for “kilo,” so “kJ” stands for
kiloJoules.)
11.1J/g oC

7. A 245 g piece of copper at room temperature (25 oC) loses 456.7 Joules of heat. What will its new
temperature be?
-4.8 oC

8. Review question #7 mentioned that drinking ice-cold water is a way of burning excess Calories.
Calculate how many Calories are burned when a 12-ounce (3.40 x 102 g) glass of water at 0.0 oC is
warmed up to body temperature (37.0 oC).
12.58 Cal

9. A calorimeter is filled with 150.0 g of water at 24.1 oC. A 50.0 g sample of a metal at 100.0 oC is
dropped in this calorimeter and causes the temperature to increase a total of 5.4 oC. What is the
specific heat of the metal? Ignore the calorimeter in this problem.
0.96 J/g oC

10. A 345.1 g sample of copper at 100.0 oC is dropped into a 4.5 g calorimeter made of an unknown
substance. If the calorimeter has 150.0 grams of water in it and the temperature changed from 24.2 oC
to 25.1 oC, what is the specific heat of the calorimeter? (refer to Table 2.1)

169 J/g oC