Specific heat capacity

Cards (18)

  • Rate of flow of electrical charges
  • Specific heat capacity
    The energy required to Raise 1kg of a substance by 1 degree celsius
  • capacity
    How much something can hold
  • Gradient change in temperature in degrees Celsius or work done in joules
  • Why do you put the water in the hole with the thermometer
    To get a more accurate temperature reading
  • Insulator
    Material that slows Down thermal energy transfer to the surroundings
  • Temp change equation

    End-start
  • Specific heat capacity on graph
    1/gradient
  • Work done
    Energy transferred
  • Heat conductivity
    A measure of how easily metals conduct thermal energy
  • Work done
    Power X time
  • Formula specific heat capacity
    Mass x spc x temp change
  • Conductor
    Material that transfers thermal energy Quickly
  • Power
    rate of energy transferred
  • Potential difference
    Difference in electrical energy between two points in a circuit
  • GPE formula
    GPE=Mass x Gravitational field strength x height
  • Elastic potential energy formula
    formula
  • Kinetic energy formula
    1/2 m v2