In the laboratory a "coffee cup" calorimeter, or constant pressure calorimeter, is frequently used to determine the specific heat of a solid, or to measure the energy of a solution phase reaction. a student heats 64.71 grams of aluminum to 97.74 °c and then drops it into a cup containing 79.95 grams of water at 21.72 °c. she measures the final temperature to be 33.41 °c. the heat capacity of the calorimeter (sometimes referred to as the calorimeter constant) was determined in a separate experiment to be 1.56 j/°c. assuming that no heat is lost to the surroundings calculate the specific heat of aluminum.