# A heater made out of a wire with a diameter R = 0.2 <mtext>&#xA0;mm</mtext> , length

A heater made out of a wire with a diameter , length and electrical resistivity of is connected to a voltage source of , sinked in the water.
Which mass of water will it heat up from ${20}^{\circ }\mathrm{C}$ to ${50}^{\circ }\mathrm{C}$ in the time of 10 minutes? (C of water = )
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Find the resistance of the particular wire. Then calculate the power it uses. Assume this power is dissipated as heat. Find how much energy is converted to thermal energy by heat in 10 minutes. Use the equation $Q=mc\mathrm{\Delta }T$ to find the mass of the water.
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You may consider this question from perspective of energy view: the electric energy is consumed by the resistor and convert this energy to the thermal energy (the source of heat that heat up the water). So from this point of view, if you can assume the 100% electric energy converting to thermal energy, and usually, this assumption is right for resistors since there is no other kind of energy that electric energy can convert to, since this is not a motor or a light bulb. Thus you will have the following equation:
$Heat={I}^{2}Rt=\frac{{U}^{2}}{R}t$
So this amount of heat will be absorbed by water and heat the water up, so
$Heat={c}_{water}\cdot m\cdot \mathrm{\Delta }T$
By solving these two equations, you can get the amount of water (${m}_{water}$) you need as
${m}_{water}=\frac{{U}^{2}t}{R\cdot c\cdot \mathrm{\Delta }T}$
where R can be easily calculated as $R=\frac{\rho L}{\pi {r}^{2}}$ for this cylindrical resistor.
So the key point to connect the electricity to thermal dynamics is the conservation of energy so that energy has to convert from one form (electric energy in your case) to another form (thermal energy or heat in your case), and little or no energy is converted into other form such as light.