Imagine that you have a 500 g iron pot (c = 0.440), a 500 g copper pot (c = 0.385), and a 500 g aluminum pot (c = 0.897). You fill each pot with 250 mL of water and heat the water to 100°C on a stove. Which pot will keep the water warm the longest? Explain your answer.

Argon is adiabatically compressed from an initial volume of 16 liters to a final volume of 2 liters. by what factor do the following quantities change? do they increase or decrease? (a) the rms speed (b) the thermal energy of the gas (c) the molar specific heat cv (d) the pressure

He viscosities of several liquids are being compared. all the liquids are poured down a slope with equal path lengths. the liquid with the highest viscosity will

Light from a sodium lamp passes through a diffraction grating that has 1000 slits per millimeter. the interference pattern is viewed on a screen 1.000 m behind the grating. the first (m = 1) two bright yellow fringes that are visible are 0.7288 m and 0.7300 m from the central maximum. what are the wavelengths of these two fringes?