Specific+Heat

 Welcome to toddtwhs page which describes what exactly Specific Heat is. You will learn what it means when an object has a low specific heat and a high specific heat, if water has a high or low specific heat, and if there are any consequences/ applications of water’s specific heat.

SPECIFIC HEAT: the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of a substance by one degree Celsius (specific heat is always the same with the same material, no matter how dense or how much (mass) there is).

Some objects experience a greater change in temperature than others even when the amount of heat and the mass are the same. High Specific heat means that an object needs to gain a lot of energy to raise its temperature and needs to lose a lot of energy to lower the temperature.