null's math question

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Your answer is off by about 5 degrees because you used the wrong specific heat for water. The specific heat of liquid water at standard conditions is about 4.2 J/gK. You used the specific heat of very low pressure steam by the looks of it.
Fucking wolfram alpha is a nigger
 
Can't you just hire some cheap Chinese human calculator to do these things
 
The other Kiwis here have given you proper, mathematical answers, but I'll give you a pragmatic one: honestly, you might want to just fudge it a little if it's for your video game. Realistic heat effects don't always look as cool or as 'intuitive' in video games/animation as just using simple rate equations and linear interpolation.
Bad nerd bad
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