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Question

Which of the four choices is the answer? During a summer visit to the beach, you notice that the sand burns your bare feet but the wooden boardwalk does not. What must be true about the sand and the wood?

A. The sand has a lower specific heat value than the wood.

B. The sand has a higher specific heat value than the wood.

C. The specific heat values of the sand and wood are equal.

D. Cannot be determined from the given information.

Answer 1

Specific heat capacity, also known simply as specific heat, is the measure of the heat energy required to increase the temperature of a unit quantity of a substance by a certain temperature interval.

More heat energy is required to increase the temperature of a substance with high specific heat capacity than one with low specific heat capacity.

Therefor the answer should be A