A housewife put her hand on an aluminum cup and the other hand on a cup plastic, both cups were in thermal equilibrium with the environment, she had the feeling that the aluminum cup was colder. This housewife decided to take a stone of ice and put it inside the two glasses and observed that in the glass of aluminum the ice melted much faster than in the plastic cup. explain in terms of heat capacity what happened in the two situations

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A housewife put her hand on an aluminum cup and the other hand on a cup plastic, both cups were in thermal equilibrium with the environment, she had the feeling that the aluminum cup was colder. This housewife decided to take a stone of ice and put it inside the two glasses and observed that in the glass of aluminum the ice melted much faster than in the plastic cup. explain in terms of heat capacity what happened in the two situations

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