BRAINCAKESpecific Heat Capacity
The Specific heat capacity c of a substance is the energy needed to raise the temperature of 1kg of the substance by 1K without a change of state:
c = ΔQ/mΔT
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Key terms in this lesson
- Gravitational potential
- The work done per unit mass to move a small test mass from infinity to a point in a gravitational field; it is zero at infinity and negative everywhere else.
- Internal energy
- The sum of the randomly distributed kinetic and potential energies of the atoms or molecules in a body.
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