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Step Three: liquid water rises in temperature<br />

Once the ice is totally melted, the temperature can now<br />

begin to rise again.<br />

It continues to go up until it reaches its normal boiling<br />

point of 100.0 °C.<br />

Since the temperature went from zero to 100, the Δt is<br />

100.<br />

Here is an important point: THE LIQUID HAS NOT<br />

BOILED YET.<br />

At the end of this step we have liquid water at 100 degrees. It has not turned to steam yet.<br />

Each gram of water requires a constant amount of energy to go up each degree Celsius. This amount<br />

of energy is called specific heat and has the symbol c. There will be a different value needed,<br />

depending on the substance being in the solid, liquid or gas phase.<br />

72.0 grams of liquid water is 0.0 °C. It is going to warm up to 100.0 °C, but at that temperature, the<br />

water WILL NOT BOIL. We need to calculate the energy needed to do this.<br />

This summarizes the information needed:<br />

Δt = 100.0 °C (100.0 °C – 0.0 °C)<br />

The mass = 72.0 g<br />

c = 4.184 Joules per gram-degree Celsius<br />

The calculation needed, using words & symbols is:<br />

q = (mass) (Δt) (c)<br />

Why is this equation the way it is?<br />

Think about one gram going one degree. The liquid water needs 4.184 J for that. Now go the second<br />

degree. Another 4.184 J. Go the third degree and use another 4.184 J. So one gram going 100<br />

degrees needs 4.184 x 100 = 418.4 J. Now we have 72 grams, so gram #2 also needs 418.4, gram<br />

#3 needs 418.4 and so on until 72 grams.<br />

With the numbers in place, we have:<br />

q = (72.0 g) (100.0 °C) (4.184 J/g °C)<br />

So we calculate and get 30124.8 J. We won't bother to round off right now since there are two more<br />

calculations to go. We will have to do five calculations and then sum them all up.<br />

Notes:

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