An iron horseshoe of mass 1.47 kg is taken from a furnace at 660 ◦C and dropped into 1.83 kg of water at 8.5 ◦C. If no heat is lost to the surroundings, determine the total entropy change. The specific heat of water is 4186 J/K · kg and of iron 448 J/K · kg. Answer in units of J/K.

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An iron horseshoe of mass 1.47 kg is taken
from a furnace at 660 ◦C and dropped into
1.83 kg of water at 8.5
◦C.
If no heat is lost to the surroundings, determine the total entropy change. The specific
heat of water is 4186 J/K · kg and of iron
448 J/K · kg.
Answer in units of J/K.

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