Heat capacity is the amount of energy it takes to warm up an object by 1K. The heat capacity of water is 4.18J/g/K; in other words, if you add 4.18 J to 1 g of water, the water will warm by 1 K. Imagine you have a cup containing 200 g of water that is absorbing 150 W of power.
Calculate the amount of energy the cup of water will be emitting when it reaches the boiling point. Assume a large-ish surface area for the cup of water of 0.1 square meters. Would including this effect make the water boil faster or will it take longer to boil than I previously estimated?
if the surface area is large then energy emitted per second will be large and it will take longer for the water to boil.
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