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What property of a substance does its specific heat capacity describe?
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How much heat it takes to raise the temperature
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What do physical properties describe about a substance?
They describe tangible things, such as color, volume, smell, etc....
Which substance having high specific heat capacity?
A common substance with a high specific heat is water. There are a few substances that have a higher heat capacity than water, though, such as lithium and ammonia.
What is the specific heat capacity of jam?
The specific heat capacity is the energy density of a substance. Since jam has a higher specific heat capacity than the pie crust it is contained in, this is why the contents of a pie are always much hotter than the pie itself.
What describes a chemical property of a substance?
The ability of a substance to undergo a chemical change is called the Chemical activity of a substance.
What term describes how much energy it takes to change the temperature of the substance?
specific heat capacity
The property which states how quickly a substance heats up or cools off?
(Specific) heat capacity.
What do physical properties describe about a substance?
They describe tangible things, such as color, volume, smell, etc....
Is specific heat capacity inversly proportional to its mass?
No. Specific heat capacity is 'normalized' with respect to mass, so it's a property of the substance, regardless of the mass of the sample.
Why specific heat capacity increase with temperature?
Specific heat capacity is by definition a per-unit-mass property. Therefore it does not depend on the mass of the substance.
What factor most influence the amount of energy needed to change the temperature of a substance?
specific heat capacity
What is a specific propertie?
A specific property is typical for only one material.
What property of a material tells you how much energy it can store?
Specific heat capacity tells you how much stuff energy can store. specific heat capacity is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1kg of a substance by 1 degrees celsius. water has a specific heat capacity of 4200 J/kg degrees celsius.
When does the thermal capacity of a substance become equal to its specific gravity?
Thermal capacity is equals to the product of the mass of the body and its specific gravity. Thus, specific heat is equals to the thermal capacity divided by the mass of the body. Now, if the mass of tue body be unity then specific heat will be equals to the thermal capacity of the body. So, thermal capacity of unit mass of a substance is equals to its specific heat
The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1 degree Celsius is called?
The amount of energy required to raise 1 kg of a substance by 1 degree Celsius is called the "Specific Heat Capacity," or just specific heat, of a substance. This is an intensive property of the particular substance.
The property which compares the density of a substance with that of water is known as its?
"Specific gravity" or "specific density"
Is hardness a property used to distinguish a substance?
Yes, hardness is a specific property of each material.
What does it mean to say that a material has a high or low capacity?
The specific heat capacity of a substance is the amount of energy required to increase the temperature of a said substance 1o K. The capacity is measured in kilojoules divided by kilogram time degrees Kelvin (kJ/Kg k). So, if the specific heat capacity of a substance is high, it requires a very large amount of energy to increase the temperature, and if it has a low specific heat capacity, the required energy will be lower.
