One Block Races, One Block Refuses

You'll learnto read specific heat as resistance to changing temperature, to find a mixture's final temperature by weighting each side by mc, and to keep a conduction rate separate from a temperature.

Put the same 1000 joules into equal masses of water and aluminium and the aluminium climbs almost five times further. Then sit on a metal bench that reads exactly room temperature and feel it drain the warmth out of you. Twelve short steps; press Next for each one.

12 STEPS · 6 QUICK CHECKS · c IN THE DENOMINATOR · WEIGHTING BY mc · RATE VERSUS STATE · v2

a big c resists warming · a mixture leans to the heavy side · k is a rate

Before you start

What you're looking at

Two equal masses with a thermometer each, receiving exactly the same energy, so the only thing separating them is the material.

The question

Which material warms further for the same energy, where does a mixture settle, and why does metal feel cold when it is not?

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