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Amount of heat required  required to change the temperature of one unit of mass by one unit of temperature:

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Specific Heat Capacity depends on the way the heat is transferred and as such such is not a table property of the mattermaterial property.


The two major heat transfer processes are isobaric and isohoric which define:

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Both

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 are characterising the properties of matter and
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 are material properties and properly tabulated for the vast majority of materials.


Specific Heat Capacity 

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 and density of the matter 
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c_m =  \rho \cdot c_v

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In many technical papers the "m" or "v"   index  index is omitted which leads to confusion between  Specific Heat Capacity 

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relates to  and Volumetric Heat Capacity 
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The other confusion is made between Volumetric


For multiphase fluid in thermodynamic equilibrium the Specific Heat Capacity 

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c_m = \frac{\sum_\alpha s_\alpha \rho_\alpha c_{m \alpha}}{\sum_\alpha s_\alpha \rho_\alpha }

where

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-phase volume share, subjected to
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-phase Fluid Density

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-phase Volumetric Heat Capacity


See also

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Physics / Thermodynamics / Thermodynamic processHeat Transfer / Heat Capacity

[ Heat ] Volumetric Heat Capacity ]

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