How do you find calories of an object?

Answer 1

A calorie is a unit of heat, not to be confused with a degree, which is a unit of temperature. Heat is the total amount of energy where temperature is the amount of heat per unit mass. Objects do not not have any set inherent amount of heat. A red hot iron bar has more calories than a cold iron bar.

You may be thinking of the number of calories that can be generated by burning something, like a gram of coal. In that case, you can either burn it and measure, or do a detailed investigation of the exact chemical process that takes place when you burn it and calculate a theoretical amount of heat that could be produced.

Answer 2

If you are talking food calories, you basically bake it in a closed environment and measure the heat generated, although it can be done by analyzing the ingredients.
If you are talking about heat and cold calories (1/1000 of food calories) then you have to work with relative heat from change of temperature.

Answer 3

well you burn it to see how many calories it has. you find the mass before and after and the difference is the amount of calories per item (what you burned)

Answer 4

i dont think objects have calories.