Specific heat capacity
Core concepts and learning points for this section:
Syllabus Points
Core
- 2.2.2.1 Know that a rise in the temperature of an object increases its internal energy
Supplement
- 2.2.2.2 Describe an increase in temperature of an object in terms of an increase in the average kinetic energies of all of the particles in the object
- 2.2.2.3 Define specific heat capacity as the energy required per unit mass per unit temperature increase; recall and use the equation ∆ E c = m ∆ θ
- 2.2.2.4 Describe experiments to measure the specific heat capacity of a solid and a liquid