Chapter 20: Heat

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Specific Heat and Changes of State

This tutorial discusses the meaning of specific heat and explores the relation between heat and temperature. It then analyzes changes of state, exploring the microscopic processes that cause them and describing them with phase diagrams.

It also discusses heating curves and heat of transformation.

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