Problem Statement
On a very cold midwinter morning, the room’s window was open, causing the indoor temperature to drop to below freezing. We close the window and trap a mass of air ma inside a completely insulated, sealed container (which models this room). The initial temperature of the air at this point was T1.
To serve as a substitute for heating, a mass mw of hot water at an initial temperature of T2 was gently placed inside the container, which was then resealed.
After a sufficient amount of time had elapsed, the air inside the room and the hot water reached thermal equilibrium, and the overall temperature became T3. In this process, we assume the following conditions:
- We consider only heat transfer from the hot water to the air; heat exchange with the outside and the heat capacity of the container can be neglected.
- Changes in the volume of the air can be neglected, so we treat the process as a constant-volume process. Let the specific heat at constant volume of the air be cv.
- Let the specific heat of water be cw.
- Let the melting point of water be T0. Assume that the water remains entirely in the liquid state without freezing and does not evaporate.
Derive the temperature T3 at thermal equilibrium using an algebraic expression, then substitute the given values of the constraints to find the value of T3.
Constraints
- Mass of air: ma=35kg
- Specific heat capacity of air at constant volume: cv=720J/(kg⋅K)
- Initial temperature of air: T1=266K
- Mass of hot water: mw=0.8kg
- Initial temperature of hot water: T2=368K
- Specific heat of water: cw=4200J/(kg⋅K)
- Melting point of water: T0=273K
Input Format
Enter the value of the temperature T3 at thermal equilibrium as a natural number.