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Baked Alaska!

     Alaska Jones can't believe how warm it is on the Florida beach. It's no place like Nome! The sand is piled high, the sun is shining, and Alaska is baking. 

     Are you ready for a challenge? Alaska is under 12 kg of sand with a surface area of 
1 m2 and a specific heat of 0.84 kJ / (kg-C°). The sun delivers 1.4 kW / m2 but the sand reradiates heat at the rate of 1.3 kW / m2. If the sand's (and Alaska's) initial temperature was 37° Celsius; what will the temperature of the sand be after two hours of baking? 

      Dessert is waiting, if you get this right! 

 Alaska baking
 

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