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Essentials of Physics - Page 282
by George Arthur Hoadley - 1913 - 536 pages
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ELements of Physics

George Arthur Hoadley - 1908 - 476 pages
...of iron 1° in temperature than to raise 50 g. of lead 1°. The ratio between the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of a certain mass...temperature of 1 g. of that substance 1° C. TABLE or SPECIFIC HEAT Air (const, pres. 1 at.)i 0.237 Aluminum . . 0.214 Water . . . 1.000 Flint glass ....
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ELements of Physics

George Arthur Hoadley - 1908 - 474 pages
...substance one degree, and the quantity of heat required to raise the same mass of water one decree, is the specific heat of that substance ; or, the specific...of that substance 1° C. TABLE OF SPECIFIC HEAT Air . . . 1.4065 Aluminum . 0.214 Water . . 1.000 Flint glass . 0.117 Ice . . . 0.502 Iron . . . 0.113...
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ELements of Physics

George Arthur Hoadley - 1908 - 476 pages
...substance one def/ree, and the quantity of heat required to raise the same mass of water one def/ree, is the specific. heat of that substance ; or, the...a substance is the number of calories required to ehange the temperature of 1 g. of that substance 1° C. TABLE OF SPECIFIC HEAT Air . . . 1.4065 Aluminum...
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A College Text-book of Physics

Arthur Lalanne Kimball - 1911 - 710 pages
...same range of temperature is known as the specific heat of the substance. It may also be defined thus. The specific heat of a substance is the number of calories required to raise the temperature of a gram of the substance one degree Centigrade. The following experiment illustrates...
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Theoretical and Physical Chemistry

Samuel Lawrence Bigelow - 1912 - 568 pages
...substance through the same temperature interval. Water is almost always the standard substance and so the specific heat of a substance is the number of calories required to raise one gram one degree centigrade. But it must be remembered that the specific heat of a substance...
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Principles of Electrical Design: D. C. and A. C. Generators

Alfred Still - 1916 - 392 pages
...rise is then determined solely by the specific heat of the copper, and its total weight or volume. The specific heat of a substance is the number of calories required to raise the temperature of 1 gram, 1°C. The specific heat of water at ordinary temperatures being taken...
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A Text-book of Practical Physics

Herbert Stanley Allen, Harry Moore - 1916 - 652 pages
...to raise the temperature of the body from fj° C. to l^ C. is The thermal capacity of unit mass, OP the specific heat, of a substance is the number of calories required to raise the temperature of 1 gm. of the substance 1 ° C. If the specific heat of a substance be denoted...
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Manual of Milk Products

William Alonzo Stocking - 1917 - 658 pages
...interval is called the "specific heat" of the substance. Water is always the standard substance, and so the specific heat of a substance is the number of calories required to raise one gram or one pound one degree C. or F. respectively. The heat capacity of a substance is obviously...
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Principles of Transformer Design

Alfred Still - 1919 - 240 pages
...the tank surface, and the calculated temperature rise would be too high if this item were neglected. The specific heat of a substance is the number of calories required to raise the temperature of 1 gram 1° C., the specific heat of water being taken as unity. The specific...
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Essentials of Modern Physics

Charles Elwood Dull - 1922 - 602 pages
...The specific heat of water is unity, as may be seen from the definition of the calorie. Therefore, the specific heat of a substance is the number of calories required to raise the temperature of one gram of that substance 1° C., or in the English System it is the number...
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