CHEMISTRY COMMUNITY

(a) Calculate the heat that must be supplied to a 500.0-g stainless steel vessel containing 400.0 g of water to raise its temperature from 22.0 C to the boiling point of water, 100.0 C.(b) What percentage of the heat is used to raise the temperature of the water? (c) Compare these answers with those of Exercise 8.17. (See Table 8.2.)

I am Having trouble understanding what is being asked in part a of the question and on how to approach it. I know that i have to use 0.51[J·( C) 1·g 1], but dont really know where and how

In part a, you need heat to increase the temperature of both the stainless steel in 8.20 (or copper in 8.19) and the water. Using the formula q = mass x specific heat capacity x temperature change, you would need to add q of water and q of stainless steel (or copper). These should be separate sums, meaning that you have to correctly correspond the temperature change to the matching mass and whatnot.

for part b, where they ask "what percentage of the heat is used to raise the temperature of the water?"
you take the amount of heat used to raise the temperature of the water and divide it by the total heat. Then multiply it be 100 to get the percent.
HEAT: q=mCdeltaT
((1.30 X 10^5J)/(1.45 X 10^5 J)) X 100
ANSWER: 90%