Explain why, in an ideal insulated mixing experiment involving two liquids initially…

PHYSICS · Subjective · A Level · Physics · Further mechanics and thermal physics · Further mechanics and thermal physics

Problem

Explain why, in an ideal insulated mixing experiment involving two liquids initially at different temperatures, the final equilibrium temperature must lie between the two initial temperatures.

Related theory

Calorimetry
Heat Capacity
Thermal Equilibrium
Zeroth law of thermodynamics
Heat and temperature
Thermodynamics

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