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Heat capacity or thermal capacity is a physical property of matter, defined as the amount of heat to be supplied to an object to produce a unit change in its temperature.[1] The SI unit of heat capacity is joule per kelvin (J/K).
Heat capacity is an extensive property. The corresponding intensive property is the specific heat capacity, found by dividing the heat capacity of an object by its mass. Dividing the heat capacity by the amount of substance in moles yields its molar heat capacity. The volumetric heat capacity measures the heat capacity per volume. In architecture and civil engineering, the heat capacity of a building is often referred to as its thermal mass.
^Halliday, David; Resnick, Robert (2013). Fundamentals of Physics. Wiley. p. 524.
Heatcapacity or thermal capacity is a physical property of matter, defined as the amount of heat to be supplied to an object to produce a unit change...
In thermodynamics, the specific heatcapacity (symbol c) of a substance is the amount of heat that must be added to one unit of mass of the substance...
the heatcapacity ratio, also known as the adiabatic index, the ratio of specific heats, or Laplace's coefficient, is the ratio of the heatcapacity at...
The table of specific heatcapacities gives the volumetric heatcapacity as well as the specific heatcapacity of some substances and engineering materials...
The molar heatcapacity of a chemical substance is the amount of energy that must be added, in the form of heat, to one mole of the substance in order...
The volumetric heatcapacity of a material is the heatcapacity of a sample of the substance divided by the volume of the sample. It is the amount of energy...
The heatcapacity rate is heat transfer terminology used in thermodynamics and different forms of engineering denoting the quantity of heat a flowing...
specific heat problem in classical mechanics. The original theory proposed by Einstein in 1907 has great historical relevance. The heatcapacity of solids...
phonon contribution to the specific heat (heatcapacity) in a solid. It treats the vibrations of the atomic lattice (heat) as phonons in a box in contrast...
m}\end{aligned}}} where cP is molar heatcapacity at a constant pressure. To find the molar specific heatcapacity of the gas involved, the following equations...
In thermodynamics, the heatcapacity at constant volume, CV{\displaystyle C_{V}}, and the heatcapacity at constant pressure, CP{\displaystyle C_{P}},...
Q}{\Delta T}}.} If heatcapacity is measured for a well-defined amount of substance, the specific heat is the measure of the heat required to increase...
refractive index specific conductance (or electrical conductivity) specific heatcapacity, cp specific internal energy, u specific rotation, [α] specific volume...
and thermal conductivity; the temperature dependence of the electron heatcapacity; the shape of the electronic density of states; the range of binding...
physics the electronic specific heat, sometimes called the electron heatcapacity, is the specific heat of an electron gas. Heat is transported by phonons and...
can be any system with a non-zero heatcapacity, but it usually is a gas or liquid. During this process, some heat is normally lost to the surroundings...
Latent heat (also known as latent energy or heat of transformation) is energy released or absorbed, by a body or a thermodynamic system, during a constant-temperature...
processes independently and using the specific heatcapacity of water to be 4.18 J/(g⋅K); thus, to heat 1 kg of ice from 273.15 K to water at 293.15 K...
plant Heatcapacity, a measurement of changes in a system's internal energy Combining capacity, another term for valence in chemistry Battery capacity, the...
the heat is transferred by convective or forced flow. Water is the most common coolant. Its high heatcapacity and low cost make it a suitable heat-transfer...
{p}}-c_{\rm {v}}\ } where cp is the specific heatcapacity for a constant pressure and cv is the specific heatcapacity for a constant volume. It is common, especially...
energies for a system at a given temperature, from which the system's heatcapacity can be computed. However, equipartition also gives the average values...
a function of time. The reference sample should have a well-defined heatcapacity over the range of temperatures to be scanned. Additionally, the reference...
approximation). Since the heatcapacity depends on the atomic or molecular nature of the gas, macroscopic measurements on heatcapacity provide useful information...
Cooling capacity is the measure of a cooling system's ability to remove heat. It is equivalent to the heat supplied to the evaporator/boiler part of the...
constant-volume molar heatcapacity Cv is constant and there is no phase change. At low temperatures near absolute zero, heatcapacities of solids quickly...