Unit 5: Quantity of Heat

Here is a list of important points that you should know:
- Define Heat Capacity and Specific Heat Capacity.
- Give their units.
- Describe an experiment to measure Specific Heat Capacity.
- Solve Heat Capacity problems.
- Discuss their application in storage heaters.
- Define Latent Heat and Specific Latent Heat.
- Give their units.
- Describe an experiment to measure Specific Latent Heats.
- Solve Latent Heat problems.
- Discuss their application in the heat pump and perspiration.

If you feel you need to revise any of these areas, use the “Learn it” material in Step 2.

Use these notes to help you easily understand the topic.
- Heat Capacity and Specific Heat Capacity
- Interactivity: Specific Heat Capacity
- Sample problems - Specific Heat Capacities
- Experiment 1
- Latent Heat
- Worked problems - Specific Latent Heat
- Sample applications
- Experiment 2
- Experiment 3

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