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Heat capacity of a body is:

  1. the energy needed to melt the body without the change in its temperature.
  2. the energy needed to raise the temperature of the body by 1°C
  3. the increase in the volume of the body when its temperature increases by 1°C
  4. the total amount of internal energy that is constant.

Calorimetry

ICSE Sp 2024

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the energy needed to raise the temperature of the body by 1°C

Reason — The term heat capacity of a body is the amount of heat energy required to raise it's temperature by 1° C (or 1 K). The S.I. unit of heat capacity is joule per kelvin (J K-1)

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