What is the difference between heat capacity and specific heat of a material ?



What is the difference between heat capacity and specific heat of a material ?..

Answer / Manish Kumar Gupt

Heat capacity refers to the amount of heat energy required to raise the temperature of a given mass of a substance by a certain temperature. Specific heat, on the other hand, represents the amount of heat energy needed to raise the temperature of one unit mass (per kilogram or per mole) of a substance by one degree Celsius.

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