Specific heat capacity — Supplement Learning Objectives

Summary
  • 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
  • Define specific heat capacity as the energy required per unit mass per unit temperature increase; recall and use the equation c = ΔE / (mΔθ)
  • Describe experiments to measure the specific heat capacity of a solid and a liquid

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