CP Chemistry

Unit.03 Quantitative Energy Practice Worksheet

Looking at heating and cooling curves we learned that energy is absorbed by a substance as it warms
up, melts (fusion) or boils (vaporization) and energy is released from a substance as it cools down,
condenses, or freezes.

Calorimetry (Q=mcT) allows us to calculate the energy changes as a substance warms or cools.
(Sections 1, 3, & 5)

Specific Heat Specific Heat Specific Heat

Capacity for Ice Capacity for Water Capacity for Steam
c = 2.09 J/g·°C c= 4.18 J/g·°C c= 1.84 J/gC

The energies involved in phase changes (areas 2 & 4) are the Heat of Vaporization (liquid  gas) and
the Heat of Fusion (solid  liquid). These energies will be used as conversion factors (which can be
quantified as Q=mHv or Q=mHf).

Heat of Fusion for Heat of

Water Vaporization for
Water
Hf = 334 J/g Hv = 2260 J/g

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For each of the problems below sketch a heating or cooling curve that represents the situation described.
This should help you decide on which equation or equations to use in solving the problem.

heating/cooling curves
1. A cup of coffee (mass of 140g) cools down from 75°C to room
temperature at 20°C. How much thermal energy does it release to
its surroundings?

__________Joules

2. During basketball practice a player loses 2lbs of water due to

sweating. If all this water evaporated cooling him down, how
much energy did the water absorb during this process? (2.2lbs =
1kg)

__________Joules

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3. If 28.5kJ are added to 45g of ice at 0°C melting it completely, what

is the temperature of the remaining water afterwards?

__________°C

4. If the same amount of energy (28.5kJ) were added to a 450g chunk

of iron at 20°C, what would the final temperature of the iron be?
Specific Heat
Capacity for Iron
c = 0.447 J/g·°C

__________°C

5. If I put a jug containing 4.5kg of tea at 75°C into my refrigerator to cool it down for iced tea, how
much thermal energy is removed from the tea by the time it gets
down to 8°C?

__________J

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6. A single serving of Cheez-Its releases 130kcal of energy as your

body completely digests it. If that amount of energy was applied to
1.2kg of ice at -10°C what would the final result be? (1kcal =
4.18KJ)

1.2kg of _________________ at __________°C