Specific Heat Capacity

• Specific Heat Capacity


  The amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1kg of a substance by 1°C
• More energy needs to be transferred to the thermal energy store of some materials than others to increase their temperature
• Materials that need to gain lots of thermal energy


  • They take a lot of energy to warm up
  • They transfer a lot of energy when they cool down
• Investigation


  1. Measure the change in thermal energy

  2. Measure the mass

  3. Measure the temperature change

  4. Calculate the specific heat capacity