2.3.3 - Heating and Cooling Curves (Interpreting Plateaus)
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What is a heating curve?
💡 Hint: Think about how temperature behaves when heating up a substance.
What happens to the temperature during melting?
💡 Hint: Consider what energy is doing during a phase change.
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What indicates a phase transition on a heating curve?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens during melting or boiling.
True or False: The latent heat of fusion is the energy released during the boiling of a substance.
💡 Hint: Recall the definitions of latent heats!
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Analyze the heating and cooling curves of water. If you plotted these on a graph, how would you illustrate the melting and boiling points clearly?
💡 Hint: Consider the regions where the temperature remains constant.
Describe how the concept of latent heat is applied in meteorology, particularly in weather systems involving storms.
💡 Hint: Think about where water vapor turns back into liquid or ice in relation to energy changes.
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