Question #34abf

1 Answer
Jul 27, 2017

"7000 cal"7000 cal

Explanation:

The idea here is that you need to take into account four distinct heats

  • the heat required to turn "10 g"10 g of ice at its normal melting point of 0^@"C"0C to liquid water at 0^@"C"0C
  • the heat required to heat "10 g"10 g of liquid water from 0^@"C"0Cto its normal boiling point of 100^@"C"100C
  • the heat required to convert "10 g"10 g of liquid water at 100^@"C"100C to vapor at 100^@"C"100C
  • the heat required to heat "10 g"10 g of steam from 100^@"C"100C to 110^@"C"110C

In your case, you will have

10 color(red)(cancel(color(black)("g ice"))) * overbrace("80 cal"/(1color(red)(cancel(color(black)("g ice")))))^(color(blue)("the latent heat of fusion of water")) = "800 cal"

This represents the heat needed to convert your sample from ice at 0^@"C" to liquid water at 100^@"C", or q_1.

Now, in order to figure out how much heat is needed to heat the liquid water from 0^@"C" to 100^@"C", you need to know the specific heat of water, which you can take as

c_"water" = "1 cal g"^(-1)""^@"C"^(-1)

In your case, you will need

10 color(red)(cancel(color(black)("g"))) * overbrace("1 cal"/(1color(red)(cancel(color(black)("g"))) * 1^@"C"))^(color(blue)("the specific heat of water")) = "10 cal"""^@"C"^(-1)

to increase the temperature of the sample by 1^@"C", which implies that in order to increase its temperature by 100^@"C", you will need

100 color(red)(cancel(color(black)(""^@"C"))) * overbrace("10 cal"/(1color(red)(cancel(color(black)(""^@"C")))))^(color(blue)("for 10 g of water")) = "1000 cal"

This represents the total heat need to increase the temperature of "10 g" of liquid water from 0^@"C" to 100^@"C", or q_2.

Next, you will have

10 color(red)(cancel(color(black)("g"))) * overbrace("540 cal"/(1 color(red)(cancel(color(black)("g")))))^(color(blue)("the latent heat of vaporization of water")) = "5400 cal"

This represents the heat needed t convert "10 g" of liquid water from 100^@"C" to vapor at 100^@"C", or q_3.

Finally, you can increase the temperature of "10 g" of steam by adding

10 color(red)(cancel(color(black)("g steam"))) * overbrace("0.5 cal"/(1color(red)(cancel(color(black)("g steam"))) * 1^@"C"))^(color(blue)("the specific heat of steam")) = "5 cal"""^@"C"^(-1)

which implies that in order to increase the temperature of "10 g" of steam by

110^@"C" - 100^@"C" = 10^@"C"

you will need

10 color(red)(cancel(color(black)(""^@"C"))) * overbrace("5 cal"/(1color(red)(cancel(color(black)(""^@"C")))))^(color(blue)("for 10 g of steam")) = "50 cal"

This represents the heat needed to increase the temperature of "10 g" of steam from 100^@"C" to 110^@"C", or q_4.

You can thus say that you have

q_"total" = q_1 + q_2 + q_3 + q_4

which, in your case, is equal to

q_"total" = "800 cal + 1000 cal + 5400 cal + 50 cal"

q_"total" = color(darkgreen)(ul(color(black)("7000 cal")))

The answer must be rounded to one significant figure, the number of sig figs you have for the mass of ice.