Jonny Nelson explains how changes in a material’s temperature or state of matter are caused by changes to internal energy. The energy required by different materials depends on their heat capacity and ...

Physicists in the UK and Russia have revived concepts first put forth in the 1940s to develop a new theory of the heat capacity of liquids. Created by Dima Bolmatov and Kostya Trachenko of Queen Mary, ...

Quantum criticality is a central paradigm in physics. It unifies the description of diverse systems in the vicinity of a second-order, zero-temperature quantum phase transition, governed by a quantum ...

When an object is heated, the change in temperature is related to energy, mass and the specific heat capacity of the material it is made of. Revise: Specific latent heat Different materials have ...