Question

In the laboratory a"coffee cup" calorimeter, or constant pressure calorimeter, is frequently used to determine the specific heat of a solid, or to measure the energy of a solution phase reaction. A student heats65.62grams ofzincto98.24 °C and then drops it into a cup containing75.87grams of water at23.87 °C. She measures the final temperature to be29.24 °C. The heat capacity of the calorimeter (sometimes referred to as thecalorimeter constant) was determined in a separate experiment to be1.54J/°C. Assuming that no heat is lost to the surroundings calculate the specific heat ofzinc. what is the Specific Heat (Zn) = ? J/g°C.