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An Introduction to Physical Science

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Author:James Shipman, Jerry D. Wilson, Charles A. Higgins, Omar Torres

Publisher:James Shipman, Jerry D. Wilson, Charles A. Higgins, Omar Torres

Chapter5: Temperature And Heat

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 12SA: Compare the SI units of specific heat and latent heat and explain any differences.

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Why should Values of specific heat generally be measured?

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Specific heat measurement has importance in our day to day life as it affects us, terms of energy, time, and costs involved in changing the temperatures of objects we use daily.

Specific heat capacity is the measure of the heat energy that is required to change the temperature of 1 kg of a substance by 1 K.

Thus, this makes it a very important quantity as with the of this we can calculate the amount of energy required to heat or cool a mass. As in daily life, we heat things using electricity, solar power, or LPG. In the same way, we also cool things using a refrigerator, the specific heat measurement thus can reduce our energy consumption by a large amount.

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