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Which will require more energy, heating a 2.0 kg block of lead by 30 K or heating a 4.0 kg block of copper by 5 K? (`s_("lead ") = 128 J kg^(-1) K^(-1), s_("copper") = 387 J kg^(-1) K^(-1)`)

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