Specific Heat Capacity (heat capacity, thermal capacity)
A physical property of matter, defined as the amount of heat (thermal energy) to be supplied to a given mass of a material to produce a unit change in its temperature.
Lab: Student Calorimeter (steel bolt)
Lab: Coke Can Calorimeter
Claim: Flaming Hot Doritos have more calories than Cool Ranch Doritos
Phase Changes & Latent Heat
The heat required to convert a solid into a liquid or vapor, or a liquid into a vapor, without change of temperature.
Lab: Latent Heat of Combustion
Lab: Heat of Fusion if Ice
Lab: Evaporative cooling (latent heat of vaporization)