Suppose You Ignite a Sheet of Paper from Your Notebook

question 48

Multiple Choice

Suppose you ignite a sheet of paper from your notebook using a match and allow the fire to burn until it dies out. If you could measure all the energy in the resulting combustion products, and all the energy in the heat released (including whatever increase in disorder has occurred) , would you predict this amount to be more than, less than, or the same as the amount of potential energy in the sheet of paper you started with? (You should ignore the activation energy provided by the match to light the paper.)

• A)more energy than the paper
• B)less energy than the paper
• C)the same energy as the paper

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