How can specific heat capacity be measured?

Answer 1

Heat capacity is a derived unit. It can be measured in units of calories/g°C or Joules/g°C.
The specific heat of water can be listed as...

1.00 calories/g°C
OR
4.184 Joules/g°C

A note about calories
1 Calorie (US Dietary Calorie) = 1 kcal = 1000 calories
The c and C are case sensitive when it comes to Calories, or is it calories?

Food packaged in the US uses Dietary Calories to give information about the energy content of foods. Foods packaged almost everywhere else report the energy content of foods in kcal.

Here is a video explaining the use of the specific heat capacity of water.

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Answer 2

Xavier Avery

Specific heat capacity can be measured using the formula Q = mcΔT, where Q is the heat transferred, m is the mass of the substance, c is its specific heat capacity, and ΔT is the temperature change. Alternatively, a calorimeter can be used to measure heat transfer and calculate specific heat capacity.

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Answer from HIX Tutor

When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.