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Would it be better to have pots and pans made from material with a high specific heat capacity or low specific heat capacity?
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Does a substance that cools up quickly have high or low specific heat capacity?
It would have a LOW specific heat capacity because -- the subst heats up quickly which means you would use less heat capacity.
What properties would a material need in order to be a better coolant than ice?
It would need a higher specific heat capacity and/or a higher latent heat of fusion. This ensures that more thermal energy is absorbed before it can no longer wick away thermal energy from the system.
When the sun sets which material would cool down the fastest assuming they all have the same mass and initial temperature?
You would ALSO have to assume that the materials have the same shape.The material that cools down fastest would be the one that has the least specific heat capacity.
Can you spray driveway cleaner with your airless?
You can, but airless sprayers are not designed to broadcast material, rather to apply material in a specific area. Depending on the capacity of the airless sprayer and the tip used, you'll only apply as little as a quart per minute onto the surface. Better alternatives would be a pressure washer using the fluid injector or a pump-up garden sprayer.
Materials with a high specific heat can absorb a lot of energy and show little change in temperature?
Yes. Specific heat capacity is the amount of heat energy required to change the temperature of the material, so a material with high specific heat needs a lot of heat energy for its temperature to go up.
What type of relationship is there between the specific heat of a metal and its atomic mass?
Specific heat is a property of any substance which is how much energy it can absorb per unit mass. So the more mass the more energy can be absorbed, however the specific heat is consistent throughout a substance regardless of mass or volume.If you are asking what is the heat capacity of a material on a volume basis, that is quite different. Suppose you are limited to a certain amount of space and you could fill this space with whatever metal you wanted. (So weight is not a factor in this case). Materials like steel or iron would be ideal. Zinc, which would weigh about the same, would not be nearly as good. Beryllium would be significantly lighter than any of these and it would be better than the zinc but, not as good as the steel. To arrive at this conclusion just multiply the specific heat of the material by its density.
What is a penny's specific heat capacity?
Specific heat capacity is heat capacity per unit mass. So it depends on the exact alloy composity of your penny, and not on its size.In a typical US post-1962 penny, the specific heat capacity is about .39 kJ/kgKIn a US penny from 1864-1962, the specific heat capacity would be a little less than this. The same was true from 1837-1857.From 1793-1837, the specific heat capacity was about .39 kJ/kgK.
Would substances with high specific heat capacity also have high temperatures?
Specific heat capacity is the amount of energy or heat required to raise the temperature of a unit mass of a substance by one kelvin. So if the specific heat capacity is high then you would require more energy or heat to raise its temperature. The specific heat capacity does not really have anything to do with how much you can increase an objects temperature. IT HAS TO DO WITH THE ENERGY NEEDED TO INCREASE THE TEMPERATURE.
Define heat capacity and specific heat capacity?
Heat capacity is The ratio of the heat energy absorbed by a substance to the substance's increase in temperature. The quantity of heat required to raise a unit mass of homogeneous material one unit in temperature along a specified path, provided that during the process no phase or chemical changes occur, is known as the heat capacity of the material. Moreover, the path is so restricted that the only work effects are those necessarily done on the surroundings to cause the change to conform to the specified path. The path is usually at either constant pressure or constant volume. In accordance with the first law of thermodynamics, heat capacity at constant pressure Cp is equal to the rate of change of enthalpy with temperature at constant pressure (?H/?T)p. Heat capacity at constant volume Cv is the rate of change of internal energy with temperature at constant volume (?U/?T)v. It is usually expressed as calories per degree in terms of the amount of the material being considered. Heat capacity and its temperature variation depend on differences in energy levels for atoms. Heat capacities are measured with a calorimeter and are important as a means of determining the entropies of materials.
If something has a high specific heat capacity will it take a lot of heat to little heat to change its temperature?
For a given amount of energy, and a given mass, a material with high specific heat would have a smaller temperature change. /\T = E / ( m * cp )
Why the experimental value of specific heat capacity is higher than the standars value?
Experimental errors would cause the experimental value of specific heat capacity to be higher than the standard value.
It is possible that the material you are using is not the best suited material for the job so which material would be better nylon or polyester?
nylon
