Specific Heat Capacity

• Internal Energy → The total energy stored by the particles making up a substance or system.
• Two types of internal energy → Potential Energy stores and Kinetic energy stores.
• Kinetic Energy Stores → The movement energy of the particles in an object. Heating up a substance → Increases the kinetic energy of the particles → Increases internal energy → Increases temperature.
• Specific Heat Capacity → The amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1KG of a substance by 1°C.


  Could also be thought as amount of energy released a substance cools.
• More internal Energy → Higher the temperature will be.
• $ΔE =$$mcΔT$


  ΔE  → Change in internal energy (Joules, J), m  → Mass (KG), c  →Specific Heat Capacity (J/KG°C), ΔT → Change in temp.