Brickwork is to be incorporated into the interior of a house to act as a heat absorber.  Each brick weighs approximately 1.8 kg.  The specific heat of the brick is 0.85 J/g-ᴼC.  How many bricks will need to be incorporated into the interior of the house to provide the same total heat capacity as 100 gal of water?  (Density of water = 1.0 g/mL; 1 gal = 3.785 L; Specific heat of water = 4.184 J/g-ᴼC

Suppose you want to raise the temperature of a 0.185-kg piece of ice from -20.0°C to 130°C. The heat of fusion is Lf = 334 kJ/kg, and the heat of vaporization is Lv = 2256 kJ/kg. In this problem, take 1520 J/kg⋅°C as the specific heat of steam, and 2090 J/kg⋅°C as the specific heat of ice.  Part (a)  How much heat, in kilocalories, must be transferred for this to happen, including the energy needed for phase changes?   Part (b)  How much time, in seconds, is required to do this, assuming a constant 20.0 kJ/s rate of heat transfer?

A 520.gram block of ice is at -28.0°C . What is the final temperature, how much ice is there, and how much water is there, if 1.40x10J of heat are added to it? Given that the specific heat capacity of liquid water is 4186J/(kg °C) , the specific heat capacity of ice is 2.00x10 J/(kg °C), the latent heat of vaporization of water is 2.26x106J/kg , and the latent heat of fusion of water is 3.35×10°J/kg.

1.2-kg of ice at -6.0°C is dropped into 5.0 L (5.566-kg) of car coolant. The initial temperature of the coolant is 25.0°C. The ice and coolant are insulated, so energy transfers to the outside is negligible. After hours, all ice melts and the final temperature of the mixture of water-coolant is 1.8°C. The specific heat of ice is 2090 J/kg °C; the specific heat of water is 4186 J/kg °C; the latent heat of fusion for water is 334000 J/kg. A. What is the energy needed for heating the ice to 0 °C? B. Determine the energy needed to melt the ice into water. C. Determine the total energy needed to heat the -6.0°C ice to 1.8°C water. (Please note: the total energy also includes the part heating water from 0.0 °C to 1.8 °C.) D. Determine the specific heat capacity of the coolant.