what is the formula or equation to find heat capacity?

Question

i found many formulas on the net, but sad to say, they are all formulas of other subjects with heat capacity as a component. So if you know the formula of heat capacity, please also include what the some of the symbols in the formula denotes. Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

Heat capacity of what kind of gas and constant pressure or volume? Thats why you have so many on the net! Hope this helps.

Don't listen to message below thats says 'There is no formula or equation to find the heat capacity of a substance'. If you couldn't than nobody would care about the heat capacity.

Answer 2

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what is the formula or equation to find heat capacity?
i found many formulas on the net, but sad to say, they are all formulas of other subjects with heat capacity as a component. So if you know the formula of heat capacity, please also include what the some of the symbols in the formula denotes. Thanks a lot.

Answer 3

There is no formula or equation to find the heat capacity of a substance.

The heat capacity is measured in gram-calories per gram of the material per degree centigrade and is determined by measurement, and each measured value is usually good over a given range of temperatures.

There are tables of values heat capacity printed in many chemistry texts (i.e. The Handbook of Chemistry and Physics)

Answer 4

I'm assuming you're referring to the thermodynamics equation Q=mC(delta)t, with Q being the heat added, m being the mass, C being the heat capacity, and (delta) T being the change in temperature of the system.

The units of C are joules/kelvin, which makes sense because it is a measure of how much energy you have to put into the substance to raise it one kelvin.