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Specific Heat Capacity Practice Questions

The document contains practice questions about calculating energy needed to change temperatures using specific heat capacity. It includes questions about units for specific heat capacity, calculating energy to heat various materials by different amounts, and rearranging the specific heat capacity equation. There are also extension questions about latent heat and calculating unknown specific heat capacities.

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Specific Heat Capacity Practice Questions

The document contains practice questions about calculating energy needed to change temperatures using specific heat capacity. It includes questions about units for specific heat capacity, calculating energy to heat various materials by different amounts, and rearranging the specific heat capacity equation. There are also extension questions about latent heat and calculating unknown specific heat capacities.

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Specific Heat Capacity Practice Questions

1. What are the units for specific heat capacity?

2. What is the unit for energy?

3. How much energy is needed to heat up 1kg of water by 15°C?

4. How much energy would be needed to raise the temperature of a 5kg block of concrete
by 10°C?

5. Can you calculate the energy needed to increase the temperature of 100kg of iron by
40°C?
Extension questions

6. A 20kg concrete block is at 20°C and is heated to 65°C. What is the energy used to heat
this block?

7. A 250g copper pipe is heated from 10°C to 31°C. What is the energy needed to heat the
pipe?

8. Can you rearrange the equation to calculate the temperature difference?

9. What will be the temperature change if you used 1125J of energy to heat a block of iron
weighing 0.5kg ?
10. A 5kW electric heater is used to warm 30 g of water initially at 15 oC for 3
minutes. Calculate the final temperature of the water stating any law or principle
used.
Use SHC of water = 4200 J kg -1 K-1.

11. 50 g of an unknown metal X at 90 oC is added to 20 g of water at 30 oC. They


reach thermal equilibrium at 40 oC. Calculate the SHC of metal X.

Latent Heat
12. Calculate the heat energy required to convert 20g of ice initially at -10 0C to
steam at 1000C. [Assume the container used to hold the ice has a negligible heat
capacity]

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