Specific Heat
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Objective
I can apply the concept of specific heat to real-world examples, such as determining how easily different materials heat up in Lab 15A.
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Practice
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Define specific heat in your own words. What does a high specific heat value tell you about a substance's ability to heat up or cool down?
Explain, using the concept of specific heat, why the sand at the beach gets hotter than the water on a sunny day.
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Exit ticket
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“A 125 g sample of copper absorbs 5450 J of heat, and its temperature changes from 25 °C to 137 °C. What is the specific heat of copper? How much heat is required to raise the temperature of a 45 g piece of aluminum from 15 °C to 85 °C, given that the specific heat of aluminum is 0.900 J/g°C? ”
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