During a class discussion on why a metal spoon placed in hot soup quickly becomes warm to the touch, four students make the statements below.
(a) Identify each statement that contains one or more inaccuracies regarding microscopic energy transfer. List the statement numbers only.
(b) For every statement you identified in part (a), rewrite the statement so that it accurately reflects the microscopic processes occurring.
(c) For one of the corrected statements, provide a detailed explanation—at the level of individual atomic collisions—of how the revised idea leads to the observed macroscopic outcome (the spoon handle warming).