Practice Specific Heat Capacity (10.6) - THERMAL PROPERTIES OF MATTER

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Question 1.
What is specific heat capacity?
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Think about cooking and how water behaves.
Question 2.
Which substance has a higher specific heat capacity, water or iron?
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Consider which material heats up faster.
3Question 3.
What does specific heat capacity measure?
- Heat required to heat 1 kg by 1°C
- Total heat in a body
- Heat lost during cooling
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Think about how heat affects temperature.
4Question 4.
True or False: Water has a low specific heat capacity compared to metals.
- True
- False
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Recall how quickly metals heat up.
Question 5.
A 4 kg block of a substance is heated from 20°C to 80°C using 12,000 J of heat. What is the specific heat capacity?
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Forget the units and focus on plugging in what's given.
Question 6.
Water has a specific heat capacity of 4186 J/kg·°C. If 1 kg of water is heated by 1°C, how much energy is required?
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The definition gives it away!

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