PhysicsCode 5054
Specific heat capacity
What this topic asks you to be able to do
- Know that a rise in an object's temperature makes its internal energy go up
- Describe a rise in an object's temperature as a rise in the average kinetic energy of all the particles it contains
- Define specific heat capacity as the energy needed to raise the temperature of each unit of mass by one unit; recall specific heat capacity = energy change / (mass × temperature change), c = ∆E / (m∆θ), and use it
- Describe experiments that measure a solid's specific heat capacity and also a liquid's