how much heat is needed to raise the temperature of 5kg of silver from 20 degrees C to 96 decgrees C?

Answer 1

Heat gain = Heat loss
(where 0.233) is the specific heat capacity of silver)
Heat gain = mc(T2 - T1)
= 5 x 0.233(96 - 20)
= 5 x 0.233 x 76
= 88.54j