Physics GCSE
heating curves
What heating curves means in Physics GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of heating curves
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Reference: AQA
A graph whose sloping sections are temperature rises and whose flat sections at the melting point and the boiling point are changes of state.
Topics that use heating curves
- Internal energy (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- change of state
- constant temperature during melting
- constant temperature plateau
- heating a system
- internal energy
- kinetic energy of particles
- potential energy of particles
- Specific latent heat
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