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Specific latent heat

Hi can anyone tell me how it’s possible that u can increase the internal energy of a substance but not it’s tempersture such as in specific latent heat. This is reallllllly confusing me, thanks

Reply 1

futuremedstudy

just think of the internal energy as the thing that’s in the particles, allowing them to collide into each other

Reply 2

Joshey

Original post by Dully123

Hi can anyone tell me how it’s possible that u can increase the internal energy of a substance but not it’s tempersture such as in specific latent heat. This is reallllllly confusing me, thanks

When you heat a substance, you "give" it energy, usually this corresponds to an increase in temperature. In the case of latent heat, the energy given is expended into changing the state of the substance, therefore the temperature does not rise. This is very roughly what happens. For water, the phase change - graph is different due to potentials and such.