Heat & Specific Heat

Q = mcΔT

An interactive lesson with 6 steps, about 5 minutes: you predict, drag and solve, with instant feedback on every answer. It runs in your browser and needs JavaScript.

What you’ll learn

• Heat flows from hot to cold until the temperatures are equal.
• $Q = mc\Delta T$. Water's high specific heat steadies climates and bodies.
• In mixing problems: heat lost = heat gained.

Steps

1. Beach day
2. Specific heat
3. Boil the kettle
4. Mixing
5. Heating ice to steam
6. Hot iron in water