In the laboratory a student determines the specific heat of a metal.
He heats 18.4 grams of platinum to 99.28 °C and then drops it into an insulated cup containing 85.3 grams of water at 23.56 °C. When thermal equilibrium is reached, he measures the final temperature to be 24.10 °C.
Assuming that all of the heat is transferred to the water, he calculates the specific heat of platinum to be J/g°C.
