HELP NOW When you put water into a hot metal pan of equal mass, why does the pan cool down more than the water heats up?

Because the specific heat of the metal is less than the specific heat of water.

Explanation:

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In this case, we need to analyze a property called "specific heat" which accounts for how much energy is required to increase or decrease the temperature of 1 g of the substance by 1 °C.

In this case, since the specific heat of water is about 4.184 J/g°C and the specific heat of metals in general is greater than zero, of course, but less than one, we can infer that for the same amount of energy, when they are in contact, more grams of metal will be cooled down to those of water heated up, because the specific heat of the metal is less than the specific heat of water.

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