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

$\begin{array}{l}\displaystyle c = \frac{\delta Q}{\delta m \cdot \delta T}\end{array}$

Symbol	Dimension	SI units	Oil metric units	Oil field units
$\begin{array}{l}c\end{array}$	L²T⁻²Θ⁻¹	J/(kg⋅K)	J/(kg⋅K)	BTU/(lbm⋅°F)

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

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

Isobaric specific heat capacity	Isochoric specific heat capacity
$\begin{array}{l}c_p\end{array}$	$\begin{array}{l}c_V\end{array}$

Both $\begin{array}{l}c_p\end{array}$ and $\begin{array}{l}c_V\end{array}$ are characterising the properties of matter and properly tabulated for the vast majority of materials.

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