Internal energy

What is internal energy

The total energy stores by the particles making up a substance or system

What two parts is it made up of

Potential energy stores and kinetic energy stores

What is a potential energy store

Gravitational and elastic aren’t related to temperature

kinetic energy

The movement energy of the particles

What happens when you heat up a substance

it transfers energy to the kinetic energy store and increases the internal energy

What is temperature

They average internal energy of a substance

What is specific heat capacity

The amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1kg of a substance by one degrees

What else can specific heat capacity be

The amount of energy released as a substance cools