Cambridge IGCSE Physics
2.2.2Specific heat capacity
Specific heat capacity in Cambridge IGCSE Physics: what the syllabus expects you to know, the learning objectives and how to practise.
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Learning objectives
What the syllabus expects you to be able to do.
- 2.2.2.1Know that raising an object's temperature increases its internal energy.
- 2.2.2.2Supplement: explain a temperature rise as an increase in the average kinetic energy of all the particles.
- 2.2.2.3Supplement: define specific heat capacity as the energy needed per unit mass per unit temperature rise and use c = ΔE/(mΔθ).
- 2.2.2.4Supplement: describe experiments to measure the specific heat capacity of a solid and of a liquid.
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