Question

during the day, the temperature of soil in a flowerpot inscresed from 15.6C to 35.5C. if the energy from the sus was calculated to be 251 117J, what was the mass of the soil?

Answer 1

It's the same formula as before (see below) with the specific heat of dry soil being 0.80 kJ/kg. Note that you should convert the sun's energy to kJ first.\[Q=mc \Delta T\]