...Crew's General Physics, §252. The specfic heat of a substance is the number of calories required to raise the temperature of one gram of the substance one degree centigrade, or the number of calories given up by one gram in cooling one degree centigrade. In the method of mixture...

...gravity.) The specific heat of a substance is numerically equal to the number of calories required to raise the temperature of one gram of the substance one degree Centigrade. (Why?) The number of calories required to warm any mass of a substance through any number of degrees...

...1 The specific heat of any substance may be defined as the number of calories of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one gram of the substance one degree centigrade. The specific heat of water is i.oo (see page 147), and the specific heat values of the following substances...

...sound in air in feet per second is about (1) 980 (2) 240,000 (3) 186,000 (4) 1100 (5) 93,000,000.. 69. The number of calories of heat needed to raise the temperature of 10 grams of water from 15° to 16° is (1) 1/10 (2) 1 (3) 10 (4) 100 (5) 1000 60. The work done by...

...to the specific heat of solid bodies. The specific heat of a body is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one gram of the substance one degree Centigrade. A century ago Dulong and Petit discovered that the product of the specific heat of a body and its atomic...

...which has the same heat capacity as the body. The specific heat of a substance is the heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of the substance one degree centigrade — or in the English system, one pound of the substance one degree Fahrenheit. The specific heat is...