Calorimetry - Physical Chemistry

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The heat capacity of a bomb calorimeter assembly is . What is the heat of combustion of of sucrose in a bomb calorimeter that results in the temperature rising from to ?

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A bomb calorimeter is a device used to measure the quantity of heat change for a process. The heat of a reaction which is denoted as , is the negative of the thermal energy gained by the calorimeter:

The heat capacity of a calorimeter is:

Plugging the values given into the equation gives:

Using the relation provided earlier:

Because we are dealing with 1.1 grams of sucrose, the heat of combustion of sucrose is:

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