Heat is conserved in our tranfer process.
This is the starting relationship that you need to do the first question on the Pre-lab. We will set up a water bath on a hot plate to heat our metal sample. Note that you must use all the pieces of the metal that are in the unknown container. We are going to mix hot water with a cool metal in a calorimeter after monitoring the initial temperature of each. The metal and the water will come to the same final temperature.