specific heat capacity
The specific heat capacity c of a substance, commonly called its specific heat, is the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance by 1 degree Celsius or 1 kelvin : q c= mT Specific heat capacity depends only on the kind of substance absorbing or releasing heat. It is an intensive propertythe type, but not the amount, of the substance is all that matters. For example, the small cast iron frying pan has a mass of 808 g. The specific heat of iron the material used to make the pan is therefore: c iron =.