Practice Specific Heat Capacity (3.3) - Heat

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Question 1.
What is specific heat capacity?
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Think about what it takes to increase the temperature of a substance.
Question 2.
How do you calculate specific heat capacity?
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What are the components of the formula?
3Question 3.
What is specific heat capacity?
- A measure of heat
- How much heat a substance can hold
- The heat needed to raise 1 kg of substance by 1°C
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Think about the definition you learned.
4Question 4.
True or False: All substances have the same specific heat capacity.
- True
- False
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Refer to the concept of specific heat capacity differences.
Question 5.
A 2 kg block of aluminum is heated by 500 J of heat. If its specific heat capacity is 900 J/kg°C, what is the change in temperature?
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Rearrange the formula properly to isolate ΔT before calculating.
Question 6.
As a practical example, if you have 5 kg of water at 20°C and it absorbs 10,000 J of heat, what will its final temperature be?
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Make sure to set the final temperature as the initial plus the temperature change when calculating.

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