How many calories of heat are required to raise the temperature of one gram of gold 1C?
February 8th, 2010 | 
Author: How many calories are required and can you show me how you solved this?
@ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_heat_capacity
the specific heat of gold is given as 0.129 Joules/g-C
@ 4.814 joules / gram that’s 0.00308 calories/gram-C
that’s your answer
0.00308 cal/g-C
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@ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_heat_capacity
the specific heat of gold is given as 0.129 Joules/g-C
@ 4.814 joules / gram that’s 0.00308 calories/gram-C
that’s your answer
0.00308 cal/g-C
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