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As a physicist, you put heat into a 500 g solid sample at the rate of `10.0 kJ//min`, while recording its temperature as a function of time. You plot your data and obtain the graph shown in figure.
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(a) What is the latent heat of fusion for this solid?
(b) What is the specific heat of solid state of the material?

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