If 1495 j of heat is needed to raise the temperature of a 361 g sample of a metal from 55.0â°c to 66.0â°c, what is the specific heat capacity of the metal?

When a certain amount of heat Q is absorbed by a substance, its temperature increases by  following the relationship

where m is the mass of the substance and  is the specific heat of the substance.

For the metal in our problem, the mass of the sample is m=361 g, the amount of heat is Q=1495 J, and the temperature difference is 

so by re-arranging the previous formula and by substituting the numbers we can find the specific heat of the metal: