Practice - Thermal Energy
Enroll to start learning
You’ve not yet enrolled in this course. Please enroll for free to listen to audio lessons, classroom podcasts and take practice test.
Practice Questions
Test your understanding with targeted questions
Define thermal energy.
💡 Hint: Think of both kinetic and potential energy.
What does specific heat capacity measure?
💡 Hint: Consider the change in temperature context.
4 more questions available
Interactive Quizzes
Quick quizzes to reinforce your learning
What is thermal energy?
💡 Hint: Consider the energy from heat.
True or False: Latent heat is the heat required to change the temperature of a substance.
💡 Hint: Think about how ice becomes water.
1 more question available
Challenge Problems
Push your limits with advanced challenges
A 3 kg block of aluminum is heated from 25°C to 75°C. If the specific heat capacity of aluminum is 900 J/kg°C, how much heat was absorbed?
💡 Hint: Use the specific heat formula while substituting relevant values.
During a phase change, 500 g of water at 100°C turns into steam. How much energy is needed, given the latent heat of vaporization for water is 2,260,000 J/kg?
💡 Hint: Remember to convert grams to kilograms for the calculation.
Get performance evaluation
Reference links
Supplementary resources to enhance your learning experience.