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Before Summer, we covered internal energy, specific heat capacity and continuous flow heating. I have not been taught specific latent heat yet so I am really struggling to find exam questions on this topic. Any help would be really appreciated. Thank you.
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There are some terms you may come across:

specific latent heat of fusion is used in changes between solid and liquid.
Specific latent heat of vaporisation is used in change between liquid and gas.

You may have learnt about specific heat capacity, this is is more or less the same, only it gives a value for the change in potential energy not kinetic - watch out for that in exam questions.

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