Subject : Physics Arab unity school Year : 11

Home work- Week 6 Topic: Thermal properties of matter

Objective : To define specific heat capacity and describe an experiment to measure the specific heat capacity
of a substance

Q1. A solid object has a very large thermal capacity. What does this mean?
Q2. Define specific heat capacity.
Q3. Explain the method used to find the specific heat capacity of a metal block.
Q4. The current in the heater is 3.8 A and the potential difference (p.d.) across it is 12 V. The
iron block has a mass of 2.0 kg. When the heater is switched on for 10 minutes, the
temperature of the block rises from 25 °C to 55 °C. Calculate the specific heat capacity
of iron.
Q5. The cup contains 150 g of liquid of specific heat capacity 4.2 J / (g °C). When the cold
spoon is placed into the hot liquid, the temperature of the liquid decreases from 80 °C
to 56 °C. Calculate the loss of thermal energy from the liquid.
Q6. Define latent heat of fusion/ vaporization.
Q7. It takes 4500J to turn 2.0g of water at 1000C into steam. Calculate the specific latent
heat of vaporization of steam.

Q8. 5.0 g of water at 25 °C is dropped onto a large block of ice at 0 °C. The water cools to 0°C
and some of the ice melts. Assume that all the energy lost by the water is gained by the
ice. What is the mass of ice that melts? The specific heat capacity of water is
4.2 J / (g °C). The specific latent heat of fusion of ice is 340 J / g.

Q9. a) State what is meant by the specific latent heat of fusion (melting) of a substance.
b) Ice cubes of total mass 70 g, and at 0 °C, are put into a drink of lemonade of mass
300g. All the ice melts as 23 500 J of thermal energy transfers from the lemonade to the
ice. The final temperature of the drink is 0 °C.
(i) Calculate the specific latent heat of fusion for ice.
(ii) The thermal energy that causes the ice to melt is transferred from the lemonade as
it cools. The loss of this thermal energy causes the temperature of the 300 g of the
lemonade to fall by 19 °C. Calculate the specific heat capacity of the lemonade.
Success Criteria:
Skills Needs Achieved Proficient
improvement
1. generate ideas and explore options

2. connect ideas in inventive ways

3. analyze and evaluate information

Subject : Physics Arab unity school Year : 11