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What is specific heat? How are the factors affecting it?

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Answer:

Specific heat, ratio of the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of a body one degree to that required to raise the temperature of an equal mass of water one degree.

Step-by-step explanation:

by dividing the heat capacity by the quantity of substance in a body, the resulting specific heat capacity is a function of the structure of the substance itself. In particular, it depends on the number of degrees of freedom that are available to the particles in the substance, each of which type of freedom allows substance particles to store thermal energy.

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Answer : “Amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 kg of a material by 1 c or k.”

Equation used to solve: Q=mc^T

- Change in temp
- Mass of the system
- Subtance and phase of substance
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