Practice Specific Heat Capacity (8.5) - Thermodynamics

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Question 1.
What is specific heat capacity?
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Think about how different materials heat differently.
Question 2.
What does Q stand for in the formula Q = mcΔT?
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What are we measuring in energy?
3Question 3.
What does specific heat capacity measure?
- The amount of temperature change in a substance.
- The heat required to change the temperature of a substance.
- The mass of a substance.
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Think about heat transfer.
4Question 4.
True or False: The higher the specific heat capacity, the quicker a material heats up.
- True
- False
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Consider examples like water and metals.
Question 5.
A 4 kg block of aluminum (specific heat capacity = 900 J/kg·°C) is heated from 15°C to 95°C. How much heat is required?
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Use the specific heat equation and remember to calculate ΔT.
Question 6.
If 5000 J of heat is added to a substance with a specific heat capacity of 500 J/kg·°C, what mass of the substance was heated if it increased by 10°C?
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Rearrange the formula to solve for mass.

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