Heat & Heat Transfer
Specific Heat Capacity
Heat Calculations
Examples of Heat Transfer
100

In chemistry, these are the two measurements of temperature.

What is Celsius and Kelvin?

100

The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance by 1 degree Celsius is ___.

What is specific heat capacity?

100

Find the Heat (q). A piece of Iron with a mass of 25 grams has a specific heat of .460. How much heat will be released if the temperature is raised from 10 degrees Celsius to 25 degrees Celsius.

What is 172.5 J?

100

Name the type of heat transfer responsible for the scenario: The sun's energy reaches Earth from millions of miles away.

What is radiation?

200

The three common types of heat transfer are __, ___, and ___.

What is conduction, convection, and radiation?

200

Substances that have a high specific heat require ___ to raise their temperature.

What is more energy?

200

Find the Heat (q). A piece of silver with a mass of 50.2 grams is heated. The specific heat of silver is .237. How much heat will be released if the silver is raised from 30 degrees Celsius to 75 degrees Celsius?

What is 535.38 J?

200

Name the type of heat transfer responsible for the scenario: Your computer leaves the desk feeling very hot after you've been using it for awhile.

What is conduction?

300

Describe the flow of heat.

Heat will flow from a higher temperature object to a lower temperature object until the two objects have an equal temperature?

300

A list of three metals and their specific heat. The metal that will warm up the quickest will be __.

Nickel = .444

Silver = .237

Copper = .385

What is silver?

300

An unknown metal with a mass of 48.45 grams is heated with 250 Joules of energy. This increases the temperature of the metal from 150 degrees Celsius to 190 degrees Celsius. What is the specific heat capacity of the metal?

What is .129 Joules per grams degrees Celsius?

300

Name the type of heat transfer responsible for the scenario: The ocean circulates around the Earth as cool water sinks and pushes less dense, warmer water out of the way.

What is convection?

400

These are common types of insulators.

What are feathers, wool, and rubber?

400

Houses are typically built will wood because ____.

The heat capacity of wood is high and will take a long time to warm up?

400

What is the mass of a diamond that uses 250 Joules to raise its temperature from 50 degrees Celsius to 150 degrees Celsius? Diamonds have a specific heat of .519.

What is 4.8 grams?

400

Name the type of heat transfer responsible for the scenario: A house's attic is always warmer than its basement.

What is convection? 

500

Heat and temperature are different.

What is temperature measures average kinetic energy of the particles of an object and heat describes the flow of energy from warmer places to cooler places due to difference in temperature.

500
Water is used as a coolant in radiators that are used commonly in cars. Why?

What is water has a high heat capacity and can absorb more heat.

500

A burning match has a higher temperature than a pot of boiling water, and a small pot of boiling water has the same temperature as a large pot of boiling water. Is this true?

What is true?

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