specific heat capacity

• Specific Heat Capacity


  The amount of heat energy required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance by 1 degree Celsius (or Kelvin).
• different materials have a different heat capacity
• more energy needs to be transferred into the thermal energy store to increase the temperature of the material
• gain thermal energy = heat up
• transfer thermal energy = cool down
• change in thermal energy = mass x specific heat capacity x temperature change