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Students in a physics lab are to determine the specific heat of copper experimentally. They heat 0.150 kg of copper to 100^oC and then transfer it into the calorimetry cup containing 0.200 kg of water at 20^oC. The final temperature of the mixture in the cup is measured to be 25^oC. If the aluminum cup (specific heat of 920 J/kg.C^o) has a mass of 0.037 kg, what is the specific heat of copper?