Specific Heat Capacity: ΔE = mcΔθ Worked Examples | GCSE Physics

Specific heat capacity for GCSE Physics, animated: why the sand on a beach burns your feet while the sea is still cold. What heating does (the temperature rises or the state changes), what the temperature rise depends on, and what specific heat capacity means, with typical values for water, aluminium and copper, and how it differs from specific latent heat. Then ΔE = m c Δθ with its units, and four original worked examples written line by line: heating water from 20 °C to 80 °C, the grams-to-kilograms trap, rearranging to find c and identify a metal, and a kettle question that works back to the final temperature using E = P t. Finishes with four mistakes that cost marks. Covers: AQA 4.1.1.3 and 4.3.2.2 (Combined 6.1.1.3 and 6.3.2.2) · Edexcel Topic 14 (14.6–14.8) · OCR Gateway P1.2c–e (Foundation and Higher tier, in Combined Science and separate Physics). The required practical has its own video. 0:00 Intro 0:08 Hook 0:38 What it means 1:32 Back to the beach 2:13 The equation 2:47 Worked example: heating water 3:22 Worked example: the grams trap 4:00 Worked example: find c 4:46 Worked example: the kettle 5:56 Common mistakes 6:31 Summary Narrated with an AI voice. Worked Example is not affiliated with or endorsed by AQA, OCR or Pearson Edexcel. Exam board names are used only to show which specifications a video covers.