Would Increasing the Mass of Metal Reduce Errors in Specific Heat Calculations?

[Marcin H]

Homework Statement

I had a lab where we put 50 grams of a metal smaple into a little bowl and then heated it with steam from a big beaker thing. Anyway, my question is about the errors I got in this lab when finding the specific heat of the metal. I had some high percent errors for Aluminum and Tin. Would my results improve if I used more of the metal? A larger mass of the metal?

Homework Equations

Q=mc(delta t)

The Attempt at a Solution

Have not attempted this.

 

[Borek]

Depends on the source of errors.

Can you list them and think, which of them can depend on the mass of metal used?