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    pre-IB Physics

    Thermal Physics

    Values of specific heat for some common materials

    Material Specific heat ( )


    Water 4186
    Ice 2040
    Aluminum 900
    Iron 452
    Brass 382
    Lead 130

    Exercise 1
    Fill in the table below. Remember units!

    Substance Etherm c m T Tf Ti

    Water 1234 J 205 g 18.6 °C

    2040 18.2 g 0 °C 18 °C

    Brass -1.54 kJ -4.5 °C 21.3 °C

    6.89 kJ 2.56 kg 20.7 °C 32.7 °C

    452 82 g -950 °C 32.4 °C

    Aluminum 120.8 kJ 100 °C 0 °C

    Exercise 2
    a) By how much will the temperature of a brick increase if it is supplied with 26 kJ of thermal
    kJ
    energy when the heat capacity of a brick is 1.06 ?
    ℃

    b) What is the heat capacity of 2.5 kg of water?


    (i) How much thermal energy is needed to bring the water to the boil from 24oC?

    c) A pot made of aluminum weights 0. 67 kg. There is 1.75 kg of water in the pot.
    (i) What is the total heat capacity of the pot with the water in it?
    (ii) The pot is supplied with 200 kJ of thermal energy from a hotplate. How much warmer will the pot
    get?
    pre-IB Physics
    Thermal Physics

    d) An iron pot weighs 1.5 kg and is partially filled with water. The pot is placed on a hotplate and after
    some time the temperature has increased by 25 ⁰C due to a supply of 167 kJ of thermal energy. What is
    the mass of the water?

    Exercise 3
    Below you can see the results of two experiments, where a couple of metal lodes are heated:

    a) Find the heat capacity of the two lodes:

    C1 =

    C2 =

    b) It is known that the lode in experiment 1 was made of iron.


    What was the mass of the weight?

    c) It is known that the lode in experiment 2 had a mass of 100 g.


    What is it made of?

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