any help would be great!
2007-12-09 15:56:16 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
1 calorie will raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1 degree Celsius.
1 Calorie will raise the temperature of 1 Kg of water 1 degree C
Calorie with a capital C is 1000 calories or a Kilocalorie , Kcal
Kcal or Calorie is the unit used to measure the energy in food.
2007-12-10 02:54:44 · answer #1 · answered by science teacher 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry to contradict the folks who got in before me, but unless I'm mistaken 1 cal is that amount of heat that will raise 1 gm of water 1 deg Celsius. (technically that's only true from, I think, 14.5 to 15.5 deg C. But it's almost true at other temperatures.)
I'm sure you can easily figure out how many grams in one kilogram, so it should be easy to get your answer from here.
edit: You know, I had entirely forgotten that there are small calories (c) and large calories (C). so when I had believed the guys ahead of me to be mistaken, the mistake was really mine. my apologies.
2007-12-09 16:15:43 · answer #2 · answered by Robert K 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
1 Calorie
2007-12-09 16:00:32 · answer #3 · answered by CBing 1 · 3⤊ 2⤋
1000 calories or 4184 joules. Blame the physics people for joules, everyone was happy with calories in the good old days, but nooooooooooooooo.
2007-12-09 16:59:44 · answer #4 · answered by cattbarf 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Robert K is correct all these type of calculations are based on the BASE units ie grams litres etc
2007-12-09 16:51:06 · answer #5 · answered by Stephen B 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I just wanted to add one more "o" to Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooobut got carried away...
from the E
kilo=1000
btu
the answer is in there somwhere...
2007-12-09 17:03:48 · answer #6 · answered by Edesigner 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
one calorie, or 4.18400 joules. A snickers bar has about 245,000 calories.
2007-12-09 16:00:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋