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Calorimetry and change of state

Heat is energy in transition, from higher temperature body to body at lower temperature.

If  "no loss of energy" then energy absobed by cooler body = energy exhausted by hotter body

For example if  m gram ice cube is droped in M gram hot water then to calculate the final temperature of the mixture following step by step method may be employed:

if value of M and its temperature is sufficient enough to melt the ice 

then heat required to melt the ice is mL where L is latent heat of fusion for ice.

heat required to increase the temperature of this m gram 0 degree water is ms(T - 0) where s is the specific heat for water and T is the final temperature of the mixture.

Heat exchausted by M gram hot water during cooling down from T1 to T is MS(T1 - T).

as per calorimetry  MS(T1 - T) = mL + msT

 

Note- First ice will fully melt only then its temperature will start increasing provided energy is availble with hot water in other words it is hot enough.