Specific heat capacity

Cards (2)

  • Specific heat capacity: the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of the substance by 1 degree Celsius.
  • quantity of thermal energy: the amount of energy absorbed or released when the temperature of a specific mass of a substance changes by a certain number of degrees
    (Q = mc^T) / (J = g x J/gdegree celsius x degree Celsius)