Question

Calculate the value of specific heat capacity of 1 mole of solid?

Answer 1

Specific Heat Capacity is the amount of energy required by a single unit of a substance to change its temperature by one unit. When you supply energy to a solid, liquid or gas, its temperature changes. This change of temperature will be different for different substances like water, iron, oxygen gas, etc.

This energy is known as the Specific Heat Capacity of the substance and is denoted by ‘C’. Molar Specific Heat Capacity of a substance is C and is calculated for one mole of the substance. Mathematically we can write:

C = ΔQ/m