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Specific heat capacity explained

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Key ideas

  1. Temperature and stored energy are different things.

  2. Specific heat capacity is the energy to warm 1 kg by 1 °C.

  3. ΔE = m c Δθ, using the temperature change.

  4. Convert kJ to J before you rearrange.