Sci 3 (4) Flashcards
Who is credited with being the first to describe latent heat?
Joseph Black
What is the latent heat involved in melting a solid or freezing a liquid called?
heat of fusion
What is the latent heat involved in vaporizing a liquid or solid or condensing a gas called?
heat of vaporization
Who was notably a student of Joseph Black?
James Watt
What is enthalpy?
The energy content of a system
What process measures enthalpy changes?
calorimetry
How much heat does it take to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree celsius?
4.18 joules
Hess’s Law
The heat evolved or absorbed in a chemical process is the same whether the process takes place in one or in several steps
What does the first law of thermodynamics concern?
enthalpy
What concept does Hess’s law pertain to?
enthalpy
What is entropy?
the energy associated with disorder
What does the second law of thermodynamics concern?
entropy
What is the state symbol for entropy?
S
What does a smaller entropy value mean?
more order
How is Gibbs Free Energy calculated?
enthalpy-(kelvin temperature*entropy)=Gibbs