Concept — Heat required to change the temperature of a unit mass.
Present in chapters
08b
Linked atoms
46 linked atoms.
04 Energia e lavoro
- Thermal energy and specific heat
- Thermal equilibrium
- Problem — Water and oil at different temperatures
- Problem — Volcanic rock in the Fanta
- Problem — Temperature of a car’s brakes
08b Termologia
- Heat capacity and specific heat
- Temperature–heat diagram
- Worked exercise — From ice to steam
- Worked exercise — Copper pot in water
- Worked exercise — Heat exchange between coffee and steam
- Worked exercise — Heat exchange between three fluids
- Worked exercise — A cup of coffee
- The calorimetric equation of mixtures
- The calorie and the joule
- Problem — Air with doubled c
- Problem — Hot bath
- Problem — Copper calorimeter
- Problem — From power to specific heat
- Problem — The hot water bottle
- Problem — Pot on the fire
- Problem — Four cups
- Problem — Temperature and heat
09 Teoria cinetica dei gas
10 Trasformazioni irreversibili e bilancio energetico
- Heat at constant pressure (comparison)
- Calorimetry across phases
- Efficiency of a kettle
- Thought experiment: gamma equal to 2
- T(t) graph across phases
- Identifying the gas
- Inverse: Q in an isobaric process
- Isochoric and isobaric processes
- Mixture of two waters
- Ranking: heat in isobaric and isochoric processes
- Ranking: specific heats
- Heating at constant pressure: the Cp coefficient
- Heating water
- Fermi estimate: air in a room
- Estimate: boiling time