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Julian put a heater of known power into a block of copper and recorded the temperature of the block every minute for ten minutes. His results are below. True or false? If he plots a graph of the temperature versus energy transferred, the slope of the gradient is the specific heat capacity of copper.

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Julian put a heater of known power into a block of copper and recorded the temperature of the block every minute for ten minutes. His results are below. True or false? If he plots a graph of the temperature versus energy transferred, the slope of the gradient is the specific heat capacity of copper.

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False. The slope of the gradient in a graph of temperature versus energy transferred is not the specific heat capacity of copper. The specific heat capacity is the amount of heat per unit mass required to raise the temperature by one degree Celsius. In this case, the slope of the graph would represent the rate of change of temperature with respect to energy transferred, not the specific heat capacity. The specific heat capacity could be calculated from the graph by dividing the energy transferred by the mass of the copper and the change in temperature.

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