Specific Heat Capacity

• What is the formula that uses specific heat capacity to find an energy change?

  Q = mcΔT
• What is internal energy and what are its 2 components?

  Internal energy: the total energy stored by the particles in a substance or system. It included the KINETIC energy stores and POTENTIAL energy stores of particles
• Will an object with a higher SPC require more or less energy to raise its temperature?

  More energy
• What is specific heat capacity?

  The amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1kg of a substance by 1°c.

  also: the amount of energy released as 1kg of a substance cools by 1°c