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Specific heat capacity required practical

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Key ideas

  1. Heat a block of known mass and measure the energy in.

  2. Record the temperature change.

  3. c = energy ÷ (mass × temperature change)

  4. Energy lost to the surroundings makes c too high: insulate well.