Two objects are placed in thermal contact and are allowed to come to equilibrium in isolation. The heat capacity of object a is three times the heat capacity of object b and the initial temperature of object a (ta) is twice the initial temperature of object b (tb).

The whale was a missile blasting from beneath the surface.  2.) a majestic whale leapt skyward before diving back into the sea.    these are both figurative language. this is so because the whale in sentence "1" was not actually a missile, nor was it actually blasting. now, for sentence "2", a whale can not actually "leap".