1.28 kg sample of water at 10.0◦ C is in a calorimeter. You drop a piece of steel with a mass of 0.385 kg at 215◦ C into it. What is the final equilibrium temperature? [Hint: the calorimeter isolates the water and the steel from the rest of the environment. You can thus assume that the heat lost by one system is equal to the heat gained by the other.] draw a diagram and explain each step

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A 1.28 kg sample of water at 10.0◦ C is in a calorimeter. You drop a piece of steel with a mass of 0.385 kg at 215◦ C into it. What is the final equilibrium temperature? [Hint: the calorimeter isolates the water and the steel from the rest of the environment. You can thus assume that the heat lost by one system is equal to the heat gained by the other.] draw a diagram and explain each step
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