Question

You heat up a substance with larger specific heat capacity. Compared with a substance with a lower specific heat capacity, will its temperature rise

Answer 1

Answer:

You heat up a substance with larger specific heat capacity. Compared with a substance with a lower specific heat capacity, will its temperature will rise. Because, a substance with a lower specific heat capacity requires less heat energy to increase it temperature as compared to the substance with larger specific heat capacity.

The temperature of a different substances rises when we supply heat to it. If we supplied the same amount of heat to two different kinds of solid then rise in temperature may be different in both the solids. So, depending upon the nature of the solid, the rise in temperature varies for different kind of solids. This phenomenon is known as Specific heat Capacity.

In other words specific heat of a solid or liquid is the amount of heat that raises the temperature of a unit mass of the solid through 1° C. We symbolise it as C. In S.I unit, it is the amount of heat that raises the temperature of 1 kg of solid or liquid through 1K. If the amount of heat, ∆Q, required to raise the temperature of mass M through ∆T, then the formula for specific heat is given by:   

C= ∆Q/m*∆T or ∆Q=m C ∆T.