10.6 - Specific Heat Capacity
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Practice Questions
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What is specific heat capacity?
💡 Hint: Think about cooking and how water behaves.
Which substance has a higher specific heat capacity, water or iron?
💡 Hint: Consider which material heats up faster.
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What does specific heat capacity measure?
💡 Hint: Think about how heat affects temperature.
True or False: Water has a low specific heat capacity compared to metals.
💡 Hint: Recall how quickly metals heat up.
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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?
💡 Hint: Forget the units and focus on plugging in what's given.
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?
💡 Hint: The definition gives it away!
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