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Blissfulpain
[SOLVED] Heat on Earth
just curious... would it be reasonable to add up all the materials in Earth and then average their specific heat capacities to determine an average amount of energy needed to warm the Earth by 1 degree?
i suppose it could be broken down to if you have 1 mol of liquid water and 1 mol of gaseous oxygen... and you try and heat both to 26 degrees celcius from 25 degrees celcius while they are mixed... can you average the specific heat capacities and then do the equation in one step.. or must you do the calculation for the energy required for water and oxygen seperately?
i realize water and air don't mix.. but i still want to know if it holds true in a situation like that :) i suppose water and dissolved salt would make a better example... does the water's capacity get affected by being salinated?
just curious... would it be reasonable to add up all the materials in Earth and then average their specific heat capacities to determine an average amount of energy needed to warm the Earth by 1 degree?
i suppose it could be broken down to if you have 1 mol of liquid water and 1 mol of gaseous oxygen... and you try and heat both to 26 degrees celcius from 25 degrees celcius while they are mixed... can you average the specific heat capacities and then do the equation in one step.. or must you do the calculation for the energy required for water and oxygen seperately?
i realize water and air don't mix.. but i still want to know if it holds true in a situation like that :) i suppose water and dissolved salt would make a better example... does the water's capacity get affected by being salinated?