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Worksheet-Introduction To Specific Heat Capacities

The document is a worksheet about specific heat capacities. It contains a table showing the temperature increase of different substances (air, water, sand, metal) when heated in sunlight. It asks students to graph the data, compare heating and cooling rates, identify which substances have the highest and lowest specific heat capacities, and perform calculations involving specific heat, heat transfer, and temperature change. The worksheet defines specific heat capacity and relates it to the amount of heat required to change a substance's temperature.

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Worksheet-Introduction To Specific Heat Capacities

The document is a worksheet about specific heat capacities. It contains a table showing the temperature increase of different substances (air, water, sand, metal) when heated in sunlight. It asks students to graph the data, compare heating and cooling rates, identify which substances have the highest and lowest specific heat capacities, and perform calculations involving specific heat, heat transfer, and temperature change. The worksheet defines specific heat capacity and relates it to the amount of heat required to change a substance's temperature.

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Name:________________________ Per:_____

Worksheet- Introduction to Specific Heat Capacities


Heating substances in the sun: The following table shows the temperature after 10.0 g of 4 different
substances have been in direct sunlight for up to 60 minutes.

Time (minutes) Air (° C) Water (° C) Sand (° C) Metal (° C)


O (initial) 25°C 25°C 25°C 25°C
15.0 min 28.9°C 26.2°C 30°C 35°C
30.0 min 32.5°C 27.5°C 35°C 45°C
45.0 min 36.2°C 28.8°C 40°C 55°C
60.0 min 40°C 30°C 45°C 65°C

Step 1: Create a line graph for each substance on graph below. Label the substances.

Step 2: Answer questions


1. Order the substances based
on the time required to heat
them from :
slowest

fastest

2. Which do you think will


cool the fastest?
Explain

3. When you boil water in a pot on the stove, which heats faster, the metal or the water? Explain.

4. Why do you think different substances heat up and cool down at different rates?

***Specific heat capacity = the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 g of a
substance by 1 degree. ***
5. Based on the definition above, which of the 4 substances do you think has:
a) the highest specific heat capacity? b) the lowest heat capacity?

6. Here are the heat capacities of the four substances: 4.18 J/g °c, 1.00 J/g °c, 0.80 J/g °c,
& 0.60 J/g °c. Match & then label each substance with its specific heat capacity on the graph.

7. If something has a high specific heat capacity will it take a lot of heat or a little heat to change its
temperature? Explain. (careful! Use the definition, your graph, and the data from #6)

8. Assuming they both start at the same temperature, which will heat up faster, a swimming pool or a bath tub?
Explain your thinking.
Worksheet- Calculations involving Specific Heat
1. For q= m ȹc ȹ ¨7 : identify each variables by name & the units associated with it.

2. Heat is not the same as temperature, yet they are related. Explain how they differ from each other.

a. Perform calculations using: (q= m ȹc ȹ ¨7  b. DeterPLQHLILW·VHQGRWKHUPLFRUH[RWKHUPLF


1. Gold has a specific heat of 0.129 J/(g×°C). How 2. An unknown substance with a mass of 100 grams
many joules of heat energy are required to raise absorbs 1000 J while undergoing a temperature increase
the temperature of 15 grams of gold from 22 °C to 85 of 15 °C. What is the specific heat of the substance?
°C?

Endothermic or exothermic?_______________ Endothermic or exothermic?_______________


3. If the temperature of 34.4 g of ethanol increases 4. Graphite has a specific heat of 0.709 J/(g×°C). If a
from 25 °C to 78.8 °C, how much heat has been absorbed 25 gram piece of graphite is cooled from 35 °C to 18 °C,
by the ethanol? The specific heat of ethanol is 2.44 how much energy was lost by the graphite?
J/(g×°C)

Endothermic or exothermic?_______________ Endothermic or exothermic?_______________


5. Copper has a specific heat of 0.385 J/(g×°C). A piece 6. 45 grams of an unknown substance undergoes a
of copper absorbs 5000 J of energy and temperature increase of 38 °C after absorbing
undergoes a temperature change from 100 °C to 4172.4 Joules. What is the specific heat of the
200 °C. What is the mass of the piece of copper? substance? Look at the table on page 513 of your
book, and identify the substance.

Endothermic or exothermic?_______________ Endothermic or exothermic?_______________


7. A 40 g sample of water absorbs 500 Joules of energy. 8. If 335 g of water at 65.5 °C loses 9750 J of heat,
How much did the water temperature change? The what is the final temperature of the water? Liquid
specific heat of water (liquid) is 4.18 J/(g×°C). water has a specific heat of 4.18 J/(g×°C).

2.Endothermic or exothermic?_______________ Endothermic or exothermic?_______________

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