Thermal Concepts

Understandings:

• Specific heat capacity
• Phase change
• Specific latent heat

Applications and skills:

• Calculating energy changes involving specific heat capacity
• Applying the calorimetric techniques of specific heat capacity experimentally
• Sketching and interpreting phase change graphs
• Applying the calorimetric techniques of specific heat capacity or specific latent heat experimentally
• Calculating energy changes involving specific latent heat of fusion and vaporization

Guidance:

• Phase change graphs may have axes of temperature versus time or temperature versus energy
• The effects of cooling should be understood qualitatively but cooling correction calculations are not required